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
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function word
Summary
function word ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (81 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- function word's GND ID is recorded as 4155699-9[2].
- function word's subclass of is recorded as word[3].
- function word's opposite of is recorded as content word[4].
- function word's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/018j4v[5].
- function word's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000134143[6].
- function word's different from is recorded as syntactic expletive[7].
- function word's NE.se ID is recorded as formord[8].
- function word's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as function-words[9].
- function word's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781403456[10].
- function word's New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech ID is recorded as SYNSÉMANTIKUM[11].
Why It Matters
function word ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (81 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]