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Meaning of "complementizer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPLEMENTIZER

complementizer  [ˈkɒmplɪmənˌtaɪzə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPLEMENTIZER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Complementizer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPLEMENTIZER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Complementizer

In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer (or complementiser) is a lexical category (part of speech) including those words that can be used to turn a clause into the subject or object of a sentence. For example, the word that is generally called a complementizer in English sentences like Mary believes that it is raining. Complementizer is a technical term in linguistics; in traditional grammar, such words are normally considered conjunctions. The standard abbreviation for complementizer is C. The complementizer is widely held to be the syntactic head of a full clause, which is therefore often represented by the abbreviation CP (for complementizer phrase). Evidence that the complementizer functions as the head of its clause includes the fact that it is commonly the last element in a clause in languages like Korean or Japanese, in which other heads follow their complements, and always first in "head-initial" languages such as English. It is common for the complementizers of a language to develop historically from other syntactic categories (a process known as grammaticalization).

Definition of complementizer in the English dictionary

The definition of complementizer in the dictionary is 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPLEMENTIZER


advertizer
ˈædvəˌtaɪzə
appetiser
ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə
appetizer
ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə
desensitizer
diːˈsɛnsɪˌtaɪzə
digitiser
ˈdɪdʒɪˌtaɪzə
dramatiser
ˈdræməˌtaɪzə
hypnotiser
ˈhɪpnəˌtaɪzə
hypnotizer
ˈhɪpnəˌtaɪzə
magnetiser
ˈmæɡnɪˌtaɪzə
magnetizer
ˈmæɡnɪˌtaɪzə
palletizer
ˈpælɪˌtaɪzə
pelletizer
ˈpɛlɪˌtaɪzə
photosensitizer
ˌfəʊtəʊˈsɛnsɪˌtaɪzə
privatiser
ˈpraɪvɪˌtaɪzə
sanitiser
ˈsænɪˌtaɪzə
sanitizer
ˈsænɪˌtaɪzə
sensitiser
ˈsensɪˌtaɪzə
sensitizer
ˈsɛnsɪˌtaɪzə
stigmatiser
ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪzə
synthetizer
ˈsɪnθɪˌtaɪzə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPLEMENTIZER

complement
complement fixation test
complemental
complementally
complementarily
complementariness
complementarities
complementarity
complementary
complementary angle
complementary colour
complementary DNA
complementary gene
complementary medicine
complementary wavelength
complementation
completable
complete
complete quadrangle
complete quadrilateral

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPLEMENTIZER

acclimatizer
alphabetizer
baptizer
demagnetizer
digitizer
dogmatizer
dramatizer
epigrammatizer
fertilizer
homogenizer
organizer
peptizer
poetizer
pragmatizer
privatizer
proselytizer
quantizer
stigmatizer
systematizer
unitizer

Synonyms and antonyms of complementizer in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «complementizer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPLEMENTIZER

Find out the translation of complementizer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of complementizer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «complementizer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

补语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

complementizador
570 millions of speakers

English

complementizer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

complementizer
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

complementizer
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

complementizer
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

complementador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সম্পূরক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

complémenteur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pelengkap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Complementizer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

補文
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

complementizer
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Complementer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

complementizer
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

complementizer
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूरक यंत्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

complementizer
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

complementizer
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

complementizer
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

complementizer
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

complementizer
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

complementizer
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

complement
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

complementizer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

complementizer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of complementizer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPLEMENTIZER»

The term «complementizer» is normally little used and occupies the 150.696 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPLEMENTIZER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «complementizer» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «complementizer» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about complementizer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPLEMENTIZER»

Discover the use of complementizer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to complementizer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Complementizer Phase: Subjects and Operators
This book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of complementisers (eg that in She said that she would) and their phrases.
Phoevos Panagiotidis, 2010
2
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Bengali bole 'say' > complementizer (Ebert 1991: 78). Marathi mhanun 'say' > complementizer (Ebert 1991: 78). Santali, Mundari mente 'say' > complementizer (Ebert 1991: 78). Sora gamle 'say' > complementizer (Ebert 1991: 78). Burmese ...
Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, 2002
3
Proceedings of the Seventh West Coast Conference on Formal ...
One reason why English does not permit the complementizer is that its presence would obstruct the A' -binding of the variable by the operator in (44). However, this does not seem to be the case in Persian. Several provisions of Government ...
Hagit Borer, 1988
4
The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro
complementizer alternations. In constituent questions and relative clauses in French, the complementizer que is realized as qui when adjacent to a subject gap (see Kayne 1976). In constituent questions and relative clauses in Irish, ...
Sandra Chung, 1998
5
Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist ...
Consider now the question of whether the complementizer that can be analysed as a determiner. At first sight, it might seem as if such an analysis would provide a natural way of capturing the apparent parallelism between the two uses of that ...
Andrew Radford, 1997
6
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Complex ...
More than one complementizer may occur with a given complement type. Alternatively, some complement types may have no complementizer associated with them at all. In English, the particle that in (7a) is a complementizer associated with a ...
Timothy Shopen, 1985
7
Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling
At least from the data cited in the literature it would seem that only Frisian joins Tyrolean in allowing both the doubled relative pronoun or wh-element and an overt complementizer to be present. The languages that have been best studied with ...
‎2008
8
Why Agree? Why Move: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse ...
In (51a), the complementizer and the verbal inflection match, both showing second person plural, which agrees with the subject. The interesting fact is (51b), where the complementizer agrees with the first conjunct by inflecting for singular,  ...
Miyagawa, Shigeru
9
The Higher Functional Field : Evidence from Northern Italian ...
A complementizer with both deictic and nondeictic suppletive imperatives (the form of the complementizer may differ) Still following the idea that complementizer deletion corresponds to V to C movement, we see that it is plausible to apply the ...
National Research Foundation Cecilia Poletto Researcher CNR Consiglio Nazionale deffe Richerche, 2000
10
ENGLISH SYNTAX: Basiswissen
A complementizer is a conjunction which introduces subordinate clauses. Subordinate clauses or so-called embedded clauses are constituents of larger clauses18. The standard abbreviation for complementizer is C. C functions as the head ...
Katja Bisinger, 2014

REFERENCE
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