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From: mgh@mtunh.UUCP (Marcus Hand)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Name for part of speech
Message-ID: <480@mtunh.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 23:34:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtunh.480
Posted: Tue Jul 16 23:34:00 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:15:38 EDT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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I'm working on a paper and I need to know the word which describes
the calss of words which have no real function in the following context:
they are noise words inserted in the sentence to make it flow and sound
natural. They add no meaning or inflection.  An example from computer
languages would be:

	find employee WHERE salary IS > 30000
	insert model INTO cartypes
	for $i IN 1 2 3 ...
	hand me my hat and MY coat
	if you run out of cash THEN write a check

The words concerned are written in caps.
(Ellision in computer languages may or may not be permitted.)

What are these words called?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
			Marcus Hand	(mtunh!mgh)