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complementizer [ˈkɒmplɪmənˌtaɪzə] n (Linguistics / Grammar) Generative grammar a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Each of them makes different predictions concerning the possibility of separating the pronominal subject from the finite verb (in main clauses with inversion) and from the complementiser (in subordinate clauses). A third possibility can be entertained for all the cases in (5), which consists in substituting an overt DP subject preceded by the complementiser for for arbitrary or otherwise controlled PRO. It is assumed that the relative clause is dominated by a complementiser phrase (CP), with its head C containing a morphologically "null relative clause affix R" (Radford 1997: 307; Radford's bold print). |
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