Prepositions vs Complementizer - What's the difference?
prepositions | complementizer |
(linguistics) a form of subordinate conjunction
* "That" is a complementizer in the sentence "Mary believes that it is raining".
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As nouns the difference between prepositions and complementizer
is that prepositions is plural of lang=en while complementizer is a form of subordinate conjunction.As a verb prepositions
is third-person singular of preposition.complementizer
English
Alternative forms
* complementiserNoun
(wikipedia complementizer) (en noun)- 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 posi-
tion, 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 '''Comple-
mentiser ''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).
