relativizer

English

Etymology

From relativize +‎ -er.

Noun

relativizer (plural relativizers)

1. Someone or something that relativizes.
   • 2019 November 21, Elian Peltier, “Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Bild it was not enough that Extinction Rebellion had distanced itself from Mr. Hallam. […]
     “As keen as they criticize climate change deniers,” he said, “they should also do it with Holocaust relativizers.”

2. (linguistics) A grammatical element used to indicate a relative clause.

Translations

grammatical element

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 関係詞節標識／関系词节标识 (guānxicíjié-biāozhì)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 関係節化形式 (かんけいせつかけいしき, kankei-setsuka keishiki)

See also

• relative pronoun

Further reading

• relativizer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• revitalizer