Shifters as sentence operators

Abstract

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...

Keywords

• complementation
• relativization
• constitutive predicate