This flashcard defines content words (lexical words) as words with independent lexical meaning, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.
This flashcard defines content words (lexical words) as words with independent lexical meaning, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.
| term | Content words |
|---|---|
| definition | (lexical words, full words, autosemantic words): have a stateable lexical meaning (largely independent of context) e.g. nouns, full verbs, adjectives, majority of adverbs (-> majority of words) |
| Forward | y |
| Reverse | y |
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