complementiser love

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  • noun chiefly British Alternative spelling of complementizer.

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Examples

  • I happened across Nick Nicholas's thesis while looking for something else; its title is "The story of pu: The grammaticalisation in space and time of a Modern Greek complementiser," and it has five summaries ranging in length from "I am spending three years looking at the 1000-year history of one word in Mediaeval Greek" to the actual abstract:This work is concerned with tracing the historical development of the various functions of the Modern Greek connective pu.

    languagehat.com: THE STORY OF PU. 2005

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