There is no relative pronoun or free
complementizer word available for this function, and there is no trace of Spanish influence.
Instead, ki always functions as a
complementizer, especially when placed in conjunction with the authenticator sb (e.g., "I swear that [ki] .
The subject + predicate +
complementizer are boldfaced.
The paper focuses on the shift of for from the thematic function and/or case realizer to the modern pure
complementizer status.
A phrase in the LDP or a
complementizer, however, does not trigger inversion, showing that these are outside the clause itself.
The element iga is a general
complementizer in the neighboring Mecayapan Nahuatl, where it continues a form related to Classical Nahuatl iica.
86), as evident in spellings of the proclitic prepositions and conjunctions, the definite article, demonstrative pronoun and relative
complementizer, the object marker, and some nouns (pp.
In the Athapaskan language Slave (Rice 1989:1259-1261), purpose constructions are marked by the
complementizer gha and the use of optative mood on the verb of the purpose clause, as illustrated in (18) below, where the verb 'eat' in the clause denoting the purpose is marked as optative.
clauses with a present subjunctive verb are introduced by the
complementizer that, the
complementizer which typically selects finite clauses.
Then, the derivation proceeds by merging there in the spec-T position in order to satisfy the EPP feature on T which requires T to project a nominal specifier and the resulting TP is then merged with a null declarative
complementizer to form the CP below:
I maintain that the string slh comprises two wds: the relative
complementizer s-, and the noun lh 'tablet.' The phrase sprm s lh does not concern a chief scribe who was somehow sent commissioned, but a specific type of scribe who wrote on tablets, such as the stone tablet on which the Phoenician text under discussion appears.
not' to a minor declarative
complementizer used after predicates of fearing (26).