Lexical and functional word

The definition of lexical and functional word

1. Lexical and Functional Word

2. Lexical Word A lexical item ( lexical word ) is what we normally recognise as " the ordinary word ." A lexical item can also be a part of a word or a chain of words . Lexical items are the basic building blocks of a language's vocabulary ( its lexicon , in other words ). Lexical word all have clear meanings that you could describe to someone. They're also all nouns, which is one type of lexical word.

3. Example cat ( single word ) traffic light ( words together meaning one thing ) take care of (a verbal phrase ) by the way ( an idiomatic phrase )

4. Functional Words (Grammatical Words) Functional, or grammatical, words are the ones that it's hard to define their meaning, but they have some grammatical function in the sentence. The , for instance. What does it mean? Well, that's hard to say. But its function is easy: it's the definite article. It makes things definite. Or could - hard to describe its meaning, but its function is clear. Prepositions like  on or at or if are also functional. 

5. Example auxiliaries ( am , are , be , do, got, is , have , etc ) conjunctions ( and , although , or , that , when , while , etc ) determiners ( a, either , more , much , neither , my , that , the , etc ) particles ( as, no , nor , not , etc ) prepositions ( at , between , in , of, without , etc ) pronouns ( I, you , he , she , it , we , they , anybody , one , etc )

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