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Prepositions like 'of' and 'on' function syntactically as complementizers.

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Syntactic research indicates that certain prepositions share functional properties with complementizers or can act as prepositional complementizers within phrase structures.

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A Note on Prepositions, Complementizers, and Word Order Universals

2000 · cited by 60

Paper 0 discusses prepositional complementizers and how items like 'of' enter syntactic derivations in specific structural positions.

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Functional Categories: Complementizers and Adpositions

2019 · cited by 1

Paper 2 notes the cross-linguistic formal identity and overlap between complementizers and adpositions such as prepositions.

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judged → SUPPORTED · 8631 Jul 2026

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