The temporal interpretation of free relatives in English and Romanian
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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2007-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_temporal_interpretation_of_free_relatives_in_english_and_romanian |
| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 2069-9239 |