| Title: | The temporal interpretation of free relatives in English and Romanian |
| Author: | Viorela-Valentina Dima |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, IX (1) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Key words: | free relatives, covert antecedent, temporal interpretation |
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