English Function Words Dictionary

A merged dataset of English function words (closed-class words) and prepositions, with category distinguishing the two. Function words sourced from John & Muriel Higgins (ECLIPSE) via qdapDictionaries; prepositions from a public domain word list via qdapDictionaries. Words appearing in both lists are categorized as "preposition" with combined source attribution.

Format

A data frame with 460 rows and 3 variables.

Source

John & Muriel Higgins (ECLIPSE); public domain, via qdapDictionaries (GPL-2)

Variables

• word. function word or preposition

• category. either "function_word" or "preposition"

• source. data source attribution