Boye Kasper, Kehayov Petar (eds). Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 910 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology). — ISBN: 9783110416510, ASIN 3110416514.Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.