Why functional words as opposed to content words are limited in number?

Question: Why functional words as opposed to content words are limited in number? 

Functional words are limited in number because they serve to express grammatical relationships and do not convey much meaning on their own, unlike content words which carry more semantic weight. Since the primary purpose of functional words is to signal grammatical relationships between content words, they can be expressed through a limited set of inflections and a small number of words, resulting in a smaller total number of functional words in a language. Content words, on the other hand, convey more specific meaning and can be expressed through a much larger set of words, resulting in a greater number of content words in a language.

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