function word
A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express…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.
» In the process of grammaticalization, an uninflected lexical word (or content word) is transformed into a grammar word (or function word).
Bei dem Prozess der Grammatikalisierung wird ein unflektiertes lexikalisches Wort (oder Inhaltswort) in ein grammatisches Wort (oder Funktionswort) umgewandelt.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.
Funktionswort, Synsemantikum
служебное сло́воslužebnoje slóvo
a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
Examples
1 sentencesIn the process of grammaticalization, an uninflected lexical word (or content word) is transformed into a grammar word (or function word).
deBei dem Prozess der Grammatikalisierung wird ein unflektiertes lexikalisches Wort (oder Inhaltswort) in ein grammatisches Wort (oder Funktionswort) umgewandelt. — Vortarulo
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
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Forms
plural: function words| Singular | function word |
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| Plural | function words |
regular
Synonyms
3 synonyms- a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning:closed-class word