function word

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

mot-outil

foncteur

mot structural

Synonymes

closed-class word

preposition

conjunctive word

functor

functional word

structure word

copulative element

Traductions

كَلِمَة من صِنْف مُغْلَق

كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة

Funktionswort

parola funzionale