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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

grammatical word en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Synonym of function word.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grammatical, word.
    • Coordinate term: phonological word
    • A root cannot form a phonological or a grammatical word on its own; it commences a word and is followed by bound morphemes (suffixes). 2020 November 5, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Nathan M. White, Phonological Word and Grammatical Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:

Forms

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grammatical words Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

function word