What type of word is after

For those interested in a little info about this site: it’s a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for — just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn’t be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary — which is now in the public domain. However, after a day’s work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary — which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it’s not properly structured for parsing. That’s when I stumbled across the UBY project — an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I’m happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

After can be an adverb, a conjunction, an adjective or a preposition.

What kind of conjunction is after?

A CONJUNCTION is a word that connects or joins together words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. There are two kinds of conjunctions, a primary class of COORDINATING conjunctions and a secondary class called SUBORDINATING or SUBORDINATE conjunctions….

Is that is a conjunction?

That is a very common word in both writing and speaking. We use it as a determiner, a demonstrative pronoun and a relative pronoun. We also use it as a conjunction to introduce that-clauses.

Is after a conjunction or preposition?

After is used in the following ways: as a preposition (followed by a noun): I went for a swim after breakfast. as an adverb (without a following noun): He died on June 3rd and was buried the day after. as a conjunction (connecting two clauses): After you’d left, I got a phone call from Stuart.

What is after in a sentence?

“I can go out to play after I finish my homework.” “I like the smell of the air after it rains.” “I was sad after everyone left.” “I was so angry after I found out she lied to me.”

What parts of a sentence could the word after be?

The word after can be used as a preposition, an adverb and a conjunction.

Is buttocks a bad word?

It is a crass word, and is considered vulgar by some, but much depends on the context in which it is used. I personally think it is just an “ugly-sounding” word.

What does Mehow mean in Spanish?

These are terms of endearment, generally for your kids and young people, but can be used between spouses. Mija is for talking about females and mijo is for males.

What does Pepe mean in Spanish slang?

cocaine

What is a putative?

1 : commonly accepted or supposed. 2 : assumed to exist or to have existed.

What does Pepe mean in Hawaiian?

Noun. pēpē baby (very young child)

How do you say baby in Hawaiian?

Hawaiians may use the word ‘bebi’ for an infant and the word ‘keiki’ (kay-key) for any small child including baby.

Why is W pronounced V in Hawaiian?

Traditionally in the Hawaiian language, the “W” is pronounced like a “V.” For example: The word “Hawai’i” is pronounced “hah-vy-ee” instead of “hah-wy-ee.” Other pronunciation tips: The Hawaiian language has many so-called glottal stops (‘)….A brief Hawaiian dictionary.

How is w pronounced in Hawaiian?

The ‘w’, in Hawaiian, is pronounced like a ‘v’. This may help (sometimes it is easier to hear it). If it appears after an “i” or an “e” then usually a “v” sound. If it’s after a “u” or an “o” then usually a “w” sound.

What does Loki mean in Hawaiian?

Meaning: Small red rose. Alternative Spellings & Variations: Loki, Lani.

What does Aina mean in Hawaiian?

‘aina. {noun} Land, earth.

How do you say beautiful in Hawaiian?

The standard word beautiful is “nani”. It is pronounced as nah-knee.

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Words like ‘the’, ‘a’, and ‘of’ are often called syncategorematic words, words «that do not stand by themselves… (i.e. prepositions, logical connectives, etc.)» (here).

Examples of syncategorematic terms include:

• articles (for example, ‘the’ and ‘a’)
• connectives (for example, ‘and’ and ‘or’)
• prepositions (for exmaple, ‘in’ and ‘at’)
• quantifiers (for example, ‘some’ and ‘all’)

These contrast with categorematic words, «words that designate self-sufficient entities (i.e. nouns or adjectives)» (here).

Merriam-Webster defines categorematic as «capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition : expressing a complete substantive meaning» (here).

Categorematic words include names (for example, ‘John’) and predicates (for example, ‘tiger’ and ‘smokes’).

You’re correct in pointing out that syncategorematic words seem constant in some sense. That’s why logicians and semanticists studying them call them logical constants. Their meanings do not vary from interpretation to interpretation (unlike names and predicates) (see here).

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was one of the first scholars to think about the meaning of the English definite article ‘the’. He said that ‘the’ works like an existential quantifier, but with uniqueness. On his view, a sentence like ‘the F is G’ means:

• There is a unique F and it’s G.

If you think about a sentence like ‘The president of the US smokes’, you can paraphrase it as ‘There is a unique president of the US and he smokes’. Russell thought that this was the meaning of ‘the’: to express unique existence.

Similarly, he thought that the indefinite article ‘a/an’ had the same meaning as an existential quantifier. Thus, a sentence like ‘A dog barked’ means ‘There is a dog and it barked’. The meaning of ‘a/an’ is to express existence.

Both of Russell’s claims are quite controversial among logicians and semanticists concerned with natural language. They have spawned a century of literature. But that should get you thinking.

By the way, there is a semantic difference between your two «sentences»:

• The play starts at 10:00pm at Rosedale
• Play starts 10:00pm Rosedale

As a matter of semantics, only well-formed or grammatical sentences express something. The second sentence is not well-formed and thus has no semantic content. Somebody who heard this «sentence» would be able to pragmatically interpret it, but this would likely involve their restoring the omitted ‘the’ and ‘at’, i.e. converting it to the first sentence. If you’re wondering why English makes use of articles and prepositions when other languages get by without them, well, that’s a different question entirely.