grammatical word

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English

Noun

grammatical word (plural grammatical words)

  1. (linguistics) Synonym of function word
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grammatical,‎ word.
    Coordinate term: phonological word
    • 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 Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:
      A root cannot form a phonological or a grammatical word on its own; it commences a word and is followed by bound morphemes (suffixes).