A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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/ n. (Prt) 1. Traditionally, any lexical item which exhibits no inflectional morphology and hence is invariable in form; the term is only used in connection with languages in which the open classes Noun, Verb and Adjective do inflect. 2.
In the grammar of English, one of the preposition-like items which occur in phrasal verbs, such as the second item in each of make up, put down, take off, look at and run down (=depreciate). 3. A label typically applied to some more-or-less well-defined class of uninflected words in the grammar of some particular language when no more obvious label presents itself.
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