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Function words such as conjunctions, prepositions, determiners and pronouns do not mostly carry propositional values like content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs). Notwithstanding, they serve as the spine of meaning. The inference is that a wrongly deployed function word can result in loss of meaning and a wrong interpretation of an utterance or a […] read more ‘We hugged ourselves’ or ‘We hugged one another’: more on pronouns