Meaning of Subordinator | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of a lexical class of words that join clauses at a subordinate syntactic level (subordinate clauses).
2. One who subordinates, or reduces the status of, another person.

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Examples

“Near-synonym: subordinating conjunction”

“Subordinators / English has a tiny set⟳ of essentially meaningless words that mark⟳ the beginnings of certain subordinate clauses (that is, clauses contained inside larger clauses). I’ll call⟳ these words subordinators (some linguists call⟳ them “complementizers,” and traditional grammars call⟳ them “subordinating conjunctions” and wrongly throw⟳ a whole bunch of prepositions in with them). I’ll discuss⟳ just three items that definitely have⟳ to be called subordinators.”

“[…] the possibility of women's collusion with their subordinators, e.g. of their acceptance of subordinate status […]”

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