| 释义 |
complementizer Linguistics.|ˈkɒmplɪmɛntaɪzə(r)|
[f. complement n. + -izer.]
A word or morpheme which introduces a complement.
1965P. S. Rosenbaum Gram. Eng. Predicate Complement Constructions (M.I.T. PhD. thesis) i. 12 The obligatory complementizer..must follow the pronoun replacement transformation. 1968Language XLIV. 233 It is clear that a complementizer like Ing is required by, and is hence a property of, the verb. 1972W. Labov Language in Inner City ii. 62 In the standard form, the order of the yes-no question is re-reversed when it is embedded with the complementizer if it means ‘whether or not’. 1977Language LIII. 746 Here we have two items which are auxiliaries by all normal diagnostics, but which obligatorily take the complementizer to. 1985English World-Wide VI. 122 Verbs like want do not take that complementizers. |