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Functional Categories are parts of speech that provide inflectional or grammatical information for phrases and clauses. Examples include determiners ([[Articles|articles]]), Auxiliary verbs, [[Preposition (definition)|prepositions]], [[Complementizer (definition)|complementizers), [[Negation (definition)|Negative markers]] and [[Aspect (definition)|aspect markers]]

==See Also==

==External Links==

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection

*http://www.erudit.org/revue/rql/1999/v27/n2/603175ar.pdf

==References==
*Carnie, Andrew (2007) ''Syntax: A generative Introduction.'' 2nd Ed. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
*Crystal, David. (1997) ''A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics.'' Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

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