Open AccessShifters as sentence operators
Author(s) -
V Zuzanna Topolińska
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1704029t
Subject(s) - predicate (mathematical logic) , linguistics , noun phrase , noun , nominalization , sentence , mathematics , computer science , philosophy , programming language
The author presents the thesis that complementary clauses and relative clauses are de facto noun phrases founded on the shifter-tandems of the type that, which..., that, who... Mutatis mutandis, constructions constituted with causal conjunctions are also often ?syntactically nominalized? with shifters built into the constitutive predicate, cf. Polish conjunctions as dlaTEGO, zaTEM, przezTO... , or French as pour que, parce que, quoique...