WH-clauses in DP-positions

On the expression of TAM on nouns: Evidence from Tundra Nenets

“…Although Agouraki (2003) does not comment on this point, Greek future free relatives appear to be impossible if they contain a subject gap.…”

“…In this connection it is worth considering a distinct type of relative clause in Modern Greek (Indo-European) first analyzed by Agouraki (2003), future free relative clauses with wh-words. These future free relatives are introduced by question words used as complementizers, whose form is determined by the dependent verb.…”

“…Other relevant properties include incompatibility with specific wh-question words ('which'), and resistance to passivization and topicalization. Agouraki (2003) analyses such future free relatives as opaque, that is, DPs that have a non-presuppositional property interpretation. Opacity is attributed to the selecting predicates, which are said to have opaque/intensional uses and transparent/extensional ones.…”

“…Both constructions are selected by a restricted class of verbs and have a non-specific interpretation. Based on these remarkable parallelisms and following Agouraki's (2003) analysis, I propose that, like Greek future free relative clauses, predestinatives are property-denoting. Their basic meaning is the predication of the property 'is X of Y' for the future.…”

“…Agouraki (2003) argues that Greek future free relatives are definite intensional DPs, but it appears to be more complicated for Nenets, as predestinatives can be either definite or indefinite. Recall that definiteness is not a grammatical category in Tundra Nenets, and without additional clues most NPs are ambiguous between definite and indefinite readings.…”