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English
Noun
grammatical word (plural grammatical words)
- (linguistics) Synonym of function word
- 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).