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The article Prepositions and Conjunctions in Present-Day English highlights a second view of the distinction between form words and notional words. According to that approach, Form words do not have individual lexical meaning as opposed to notional words Only a specific set of form words denote extra-linguistic phenomena Form words have a shared grammatical and lexical meaning The relation between grammatical and lexical meaning is the same when it comes to form words and to notional words The article Prepositions and Conjunctions in Present-Day English hypothesizes that if prepositions gave only information about the relation between linguistic units There would only be need for ONE preposition in each language They would be translated as direct equivalents across languages We would need more prepositions to express lexical meaning They would not be able to provide extra-linguistic information The article Prepositions and Conjunctions in Present-Day English posits two different views regarding form words. In one view, ALL of these are features of form words WITH THE EXCEPTION OF They denote extra-linguistic phenomena They express relations between linguistic units They have no distinction between grammatical and lexical meaning They share a common grammatical meaning Why does the author of the article Prepositions and Conjunctions in Present-Day English argue the assertion that the meaning of words and their grammatical functions DO NOT coincide? Meaning and function are two different notions Meaning and function can often be correlated Function is related to syntax and morphology Meaning belongs only to the sphere of morphology When the author of the article Prepositions and Conjunctions in Present-Day English refers to a word’s individual meaning, he’s referring to Lexical meaning Morphological meaning Grammatical meaning Syntactic meaning Which of these sentences is true BASED on the text Prepositions and Conjunctions in Present-Day English? Parte superior do formulário ALTERNATIVAS Relations between words and clauses admit several variants The meaning of conjunctions merely indicate connections between language units Each conjunction denotes a certain connection between extra-linguistic phenomena The distinction between the meaning of conjunctions and their syntactic function is impossible to be drawn. Parte inferior do formulário