Linguistics

Word level: A basic distinction can be made between ______ and ______.

autosemantic words
  • language change is evident
  • open word classes
  • words with fairly specific meaning
  • nouns, lexical verbs, adjectives, adverbs
 
synsemantic words
  • very slowly affected by language change
  • closed word classes
  • expressing more general concepts
  • auxiliary verbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, determiners, interjections

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