functional category

categories without lexical content, fulfilling some grammatical function in a given structure: inflections, determiners, degree adverbs and complementisers.

Basic English Syntax with Exercises

1.3.5 Functional Categories

It is now time we turned our attention to the second main subdivision of word categories, the functional categories.

 

                    1.3.5.1 Inflections

                    1.3.5.2 Determiners

                    1.3.5.3 Degree Adverbs

                    1.3.5.4 Complementisers