grammatical word

English

Noun

grammatical word (plural grammatical words)

1. (linguistics) Synonym of function word
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grammatical,‎ word.

   Coordinate term: phonological word

   • 2020 November 5, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Nathan M. White, Phonological Word and Grammatical Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:

     A root cannot form a phonological or a grammatical word on its own; it commences a word and is followed by bound morphemes (suffixes).