Definition of "complementizer" [complementizer]

• A form of subordinate conjunction (noun)

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• "The clause Reagan will … end violence is a complementizer phrase that modifies way, forming the noun phrase no way (that) Reagan will … end violence."
• "If complementizer phrases denote propositions or possible states of affairs, then it is reasonable to assume that being good simpliciter is being a good state of affairs, and hence that it is a special case of attributive good."
• "And there is no question that there are plenty of languages in which the apparent complementizer is not homophonic with a demonstrative."