Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mtunh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mgh 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 Lines: 20 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)