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complementizer

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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
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The 20 here discuss such topics as the morphological reduction and phonological compensation in Old Leonese contractions, motivating floating quantifiers, the complementizer the, predicting argument realization from oblique marker semantics, greetings and closings in institutional e-mails, and the role of pedagogical tasks and focus on form in the acquisition of discourse markers by advanced language learners.
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Complementizers include words such as that, if, and whether which serve to introduce and characterize complement clauses in several ways (They wondered if Mary would come).
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clauses with a present subjunctive verb are introduced by the complementizer that, the complementizer which typically selects finite clauses.
Finiteness, subjunctives, and negation in English by Anderson, John M. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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