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grammatical word

grammatical word noun: synonym of function word.

Noun

grammatical word (plural grammatical words)

  1. Synonym of function word.
    Synonyms:
    function word
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grammatical, word.
    • Coordinate term: phonological word
    • A root cannot form a phonological or a grammatical word on its own; it commences a word and is followed by bound morphemes (suffixes).2020 November 5, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Nathan M. White, Phonological Word and Grammatical Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology), Oxford University...

Synonyms of grammatical word

Forms of grammatical word

pluralgrammatical words

Questions about grammatical word

What does grammatical word mean?
Grammatical word means synonym of function word.
What part of speech is grammatical word?
Grammatical word is a noun.
What is the plural of grammatical word?
The plural of grammatical word is grammatical words.

Words near grammatical word in the dictionary

  1. grammatical genders
  2. grammatical mood
  3. grammatical moods
  4. grammatical person
  5. grammatical persons
  6. grammatical word
  7. grammatical words
  8. grammaticalisation
  9. grammaticalisations
  10. grammaticalise
  11. grammaticalised

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