function word
Sostantivo
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.
- Sinonimi
- Contrari
- Esempi
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Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.
Sostantivo
a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
- Sinonimi
- Termini più generali
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function words