function word
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function word
noun function words
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A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.
Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.
Similar: functor, grammatical word · Opposite: content word, lexical word
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noun function word
| Español | palabra funcional, palabra gramatical, palabra cenemática |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 문법형태소 munbeophyeongtaeso |
| 日本語 | 機能語 kinōgo |
| Português | palavra gramatical |
| Français | mot-outil, mot grammatical |
| Deutsch | Funktionswort, Synsemantikum |
| Italiano | parola vuota |
| Русский | служебное сло́во služebnoje slóvo |
| العربية | كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة kalima waẓīfiyya |
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