Function word

Synonyms for "function word" (20 found)

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Noun(4 words)

artwork for studyclosed-class wordcross linguistic conceptfunction word type

Noun(6 words)

functional markergrammar category prepositiongrammatical function categorygrammatical itemgrammatical modifiergrammatical word

Noun(9 words)

language typology termpart of speech categoryparticle particles prep preposition prepositionsrelational wordsyntactic word

Adjective(1 words)

non descriptive word

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

6 entries

closed class wordgrammatical categorylinguistic categorypart of speechwordword class

6 entries

4 entries

auxiliary verbclosed class wordgrammatical functionstop word

1 entries

function words

2 entries

functionalfunctional word

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.

Source: wiktionary