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What is a complementizer?

What is a complementizer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) A subordinating conjunction that can convert a clause into a complement clause, i.e. one that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
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First, there are languages where the apparent complementizer — 'that', in English — is not homophonic with a demonstrative.
Thus, Clements reports that in Ewe all logophoric constructions contain the complementizer be.
The relative pronoun could be homophonous with a complementizer, and this complementizer could cause mutation while the relative pronoun did not.
There is no need, at least not without other assumptions, that the apparent complementizer itself function as a demonstrative.
However, strictly speaking, the analysis leaves open the possibility that that-clauses designate propositions by virtue of the combined workings of the complementizer 'that' and the sentence immediately following it.
In many logophoric languages, a complementizer of this kind does seem to play an important role in logophoric marking.

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