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closed-class word
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Noun1.closed-class word - a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
function word
word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
determinative, determiner - one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases
preposition - a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
pronoun - a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase
conjunctive, connective, continuative, conjunction - an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
particle - a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
grammatical meaning - the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form
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Using this approach, all lexical classes are defined as complex (potentially cyclic) DFSTs, and combined, together with the closed class items, as one monolithic DFST.
Efficient morphological parsing with a weighted finite state ... by Cavar, Damir; Jazbec, Ivo-Pavao; Runjaic, Sinisa / Informatica
The variation within the closed class of multiple-stem nominals in table 11 also does not motivate additional classes.
Declension classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
Analysis of a multiple extension sequence is achieved by trivial analysis, based on any combination of the closed class members, but this produces unnecessary over-generation of lexical items, many of which may not occur in a lexicon.
Verbal extension sequencing: an examination from a computational ... by Anderson, W.N.; Kotze, A.E. / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
 
 
 
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