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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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| Egan describes the classification of the constructions, the findings of earlier studies, complement types and complementizers, same-time constructions, forward-looking constructions, and backward-looking constructions. Since prepositions are (under certain conditions) deletable in front of att-clauses in all varieties of Swedish, and often also in English (thus about in (19b) above), it would seem that the complementizers att and that lack nominal features, in spite of the NP-like overall distribution of the clauses introduced by them, and that this lack provides the explanation for the ban on subject extraction. |
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