The temporal interpretation of free relatives in English and Romanian

Autor: Viorela-Valentina Dima
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol IX, Iss 1, Pp 17-28 (2007)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2069-9239
Popis: Abstract: Free relatives have been defined as types of relative clauses with a covert antecedent, which is semantically and syntactically active (de Vries 2002, GALR II:218), influencing the morphology of the wh- word which introduces the free relative. The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at the semantic properties of the covert antecedent and demonstrate that its temporal interpretation influences the choice of tense form that can surface in the relative clause.
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