SYNO | closed-class word | function word |
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- is a grammatical construction in the English language used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word.
- Each of these predicates is a periphrastic form insofar as at least one function word is present.
- In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase, clause or sentence where the meaning is recoverable from the context.
- There are several types of paralexias depending on the type of reading errors: orthographic paralexias, semantic paralexias, inflectional and derivational paralexias, function word substitutions, regularization errors and orthographic-then-semantic paralexias.
- However, the function word "and" is reported as being lax.
- Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or clause, and cannot be isolated from other words; or gives information about the speaker's mental model as to what is being said.
- ... is more of a function word); as noted above, however, they are still distinct from traditional auxiliary verbs.
- In a "bǎ" construction, the object of a verb is placed after the function word [...] (or, in more formal writing, [...]), and the verb placed after the object, forming a subject–object–verb (SOV) sentence.
- Content words usually consist of nouns and regular verbs and are more rare than frequent function words.
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