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Function word

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  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning wordnet

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