1 Wh - Infinitives and the Licensing of " Anaphoric Tense
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In this paper I wish to discuss an interesting constraint on the interpretation of the Italian infinitive in subordinate clauses introduced by an interrogative or relative phrase (for short, "wh-infinitives"). Firstly, observe that in an infinitival declarative complement, as in (1), the compound infinitive describes an event which is temporally located before the event or state described by the matrix clause:
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تاریخ انتشار 2006