0 in grammar, a word such as a conjunction, preposition, or pronoun that is used to show the relationship between other words in a sentence or phrase --
It is the status of a word as a function word, in one case, and as a morpheme in an inflectional ending, in another case, that has been examined.
Any other morphosyntactic element, including a free function word, is prohibited in this position.
A bound function word would contain in its lexical entry a prespecified prosodic frame, which characterises it as either proclitic or enclitic.
Simple phrasing rules apply to the tagged text to insert phrase boundaries either before or after a function word and before some tensed verbs.
It is even used as one of the main criteria to identify the 'function word' as opposed to 'the lexical word'.
In other syntactic functions, the comparative was usually followed by an unstressed function word or a pause.
Specifically, when the stop-obstruent sequence is preceded by a vowel, deletion is higher when the 0t,d0 is in a function word.
No effects of preceding word frequency were found in any content or function word subsets tested, or in function words.
