function word

名詞

(linguistics) 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, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.

日本語の意味

機能語：単独では固有の意味を持たず、文中で他の語との文法的関係を示す、または話者の態度や気分を表現するための語。具体例として前置詞、代名詞、助動詞、接続詞などが含まれる。

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In English, the word 'and' is a classic example of a function word that links phrases without adding lexical meaning.

英語では「and」のような語は、語彙的な意味を加えずに句をつなぐ機能語の典型的な例です。

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意味（1）

(linguistics) 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, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.

Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.

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function words （ plural ）