Near-synonym: subordinating conjunction
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Complementizer
Synonyms for "complementizer" (2 found)
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coordinate
2 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 9 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 標句詞 /标句词 noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
- 補語連詞 /补语连词 noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
Dutch
1 entries- complementeerder noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
French
1 entries- complémenteur noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
German
2 entries- Complementizer noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
- Komplementierer noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
Hebrew
2 entries- מילת שעבוד noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
- משעבד noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
Japanese
2 entries- 補文化辞 noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
- 補文標識 noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
Polish
1 entries- komplementator noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
Spanish
2 entries- complementante noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
- complementizador noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
Swedish
1 entries- subjunktion noun (form of subordinate conjunction)
Sample sentences
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"That" is a complementizer in the sentence "Mary believes that it is raining".
Source: wiktionary
However, what is of particular interest to us here is the fact that the presence of the Complementiser whether in (37) (b) above excludes the possibility of having an inverted Auxiliary in pre-subject position, as we see from the ungrammaticality of (38) below: (38) *John wondered whether would he get a degree Why should this be? The answer we propose here is that this is because both Complementisers and inverted Auxiliaries occupy the pre-subject C position: hence, when (as in (38) above) the C position is already filled by the Complementiser whether, inversion of the Auxiliary is not possible, on the assumption that once a given position is filled by one constituent, it cannot be filled by another (i.e. we can only have one constituent occupying any given position).
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