function word
Words with little/ambiguous lexical meaning that express grammatical relationships or specify the speaker’s attitude/mood of the speaker; e.g. articles, pronouns, adpositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, interjections, particles
Also known as grammatical word · synsemantic word · structure-class word · content/lexical · function words · functors
- Subclass of
Overview
All data
10 statements · 20% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
On other databases
8 identifiers linking function word across the web's reference databases