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| May 19, 2021 at 13:57 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @JK2 Yes, in an expanded declarative content clause, the Marker is a dependent of the clause. I haven't checked, but I'm pretty certain that they say that three main types of dependent are Complement, Modifier and Determiner. There are several other minor ones, for example the function 'Prenucleus' in relative and interrogative clauses. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 13:51 | comment | added | JK2 | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore. Thanks for the page number. In that diagram, Subordinator is Marker, and Clause is Head. So in a sense, "Marker: Suboridnator" is Dependent, but I don't remember CaGEL has said it is. Is "Marker: Suboridnator" Dependent of "Head: Clause" in the diagram? Or is it something else? CaGEL does say three subtypes of Dependent are Complement, Modifier and Determiner, none of which seems to include Marker: Subordinator. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 9:15 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @JK2 Yes, see for example CaGEL p.954, where they give a fully labelled tree diagram. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 4:10 | comment | added | DW256 | @AzorAhai-him- According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, 'marker' is defined as "A function label used for certain grammatical words. Thus in She said that her flat is for sale the word that is formally a subordinator, and functions as a marker." According to CaGEL p1305, 'marker' is also an appropriate label for the function of determinatives both and either in correlative coordination: "In the coordinations ... they function as marker of the first coordinate in correlative coordination: both is paired with and, while either is paired with or." | |
| May 19, 2021 at 3:29 | comment | added | JK2 | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore. I didn't know "marker" is a grammatical relations label. I thought it was more like a generic term to use to refer to anything that marks something. In both you and I, for example, both is a marker (of coordination) since it marks coordination. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 20:35 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @AzorAhai-him In modern non-generative grammars, (e.g. Aarts, 2011, Modern English Grammar) the grammatical relations label (akin to 'Subject, Object, Determiner etc) for subordinators is 'Marker'. Note that 'subordinator' is a word category and 'Marker' is a grammatical relation (same relationship as noun to Subject for example). It just indicates that a subordinator is a meaningless left-edge Marker of a particular type of clause. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | I haven't heard "marker" used grammatically as you did; what do you mean by that here? | |
| May 18, 2021 at 10:18 | history | answered | BillJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |