mark
: marker
A marker is the word marking a clause as subordinate to
another clause. For a complement clause, this is words like [en] that
or whether. For an adverbial clause, the marker is typically a
subordinating conjunction like [en] while or although. The marker is a dependent of the
subordinate clause head. In a relative clause, it is a normally uninflected word, which simply introduces a relative clause, such as [he] še. (In this last use, one needs to distinguish between relative clause markers, which are mark
, from relative pronouns such as [en] who or that, which fill a regular verbal argument or modifier grammatical relation.)
Infinitive markers (e.g. English to, German zu) in infinitival clauses are also attached as mark
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mark in other languages: [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gsw] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [ky] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [vi] [xcl] [yue] [zh]