Function word
Function words (or grammatical words) are
words that have little
lexical meaning or have
ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express
grammatical relationships with other words within a
sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. Words which are not function words are called content words (or lexical words): these include
nouns,
verbs,
adjectives, and most
adverbs, though some adverbs are function words (e.g. then, why).
Dictionaries define the specific meanings of content words, but can only describe the general usages of function words. By contrast,
grammars describe the use of function words in detail, but have little interest in lexical words.
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Synsemantikum
Das Synsemantikum (auch Synsemantikon oder Funktionswort) ist eine Sammelbezeichnung für alle
Wortarten, welche in der Hauptsache keine oder nur im Zusammenspiel mit anderen
Lexemen erkennbare lexikalische Bedeutung aufweisen. Funktionswörter haben lediglich Bedeutung hinsichtlich Syntax und Struktur. Synsemantika gehören immer zum
Grundwortschatz einer Sprache. Artikel, Konjunktion, Präposition, Modalverb und Hilfsverb zählen zu den Funktionswörtern. Gegensatz zum Synsemantikum ist das
Autosemantikum.
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content word
Noun
1. a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
(synonym) open-class word
(hypernym) word
(hyponym) headword, head word
(part-meronym) lexical meaning
content word
(n.) = palabra de contenido
Ex: Content words are subdivided into nominals, attributives, predicatives, infinitives, adverbs, and gerunds.