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Friday, September 28, 2007

Word of the day

syncategorematic \sin-kat-uh-gor-uh-MAT-ik\

forming a meaningful expression only in conjunction with a denotative expression (as a content word)

Example sentence:
“In any language, there will be what are called syncategorematic words, such as prepositions and articles,” explained Dr. Lewis.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of.

Anonymous said...

the