expletive (Q14671)

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a term
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expletive
a term

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    Concept
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    skos:definition
    word that doesn't add to the meaning of a sentence
    wikidata entity
    Q60790458
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    An expletive (also known as a dummy word) is a part of speech whose members have no meaning, but complete a sentence to make it grammatical [Crystal 1997,127;].
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    occurs in # of LexBib BibItems
    34
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    LexBib Aug 2021
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    sent to LexVoc Lexonomy
    21 August 2021
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