Dictionary

function word en · NOUN

Meanings

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. 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:

Forms

Antonyms

content word · lexical word

Synonyms

grammatical word · functor

Translations (21)

ja 機能語 (function word) · pt palavra gramatical (function word) · fr mot grammatical (function word) · es palabra funcional (function word) · ru служебное сло́во (function word) · de Synsemantikum (function word) · ar كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة (function word) · fr mot-outil (function word) · fi funktiosana (function word) · es palabra cenemática (function word) · de Funktionswort (function word) · es palabra gramatical (function word) · sv formord (function word) · cy gair ffwythiannol (function word) · nl functiewoord (function word) · it parola vuota (function word) · ko 문법형태소 (function word) · sv funktionsord (function word) · az köməkçi söz (function word) · pl funktor (function word) · fi kieliopillinen sana (function word)