Original version
Syntax, semantics and acquisition: In honor of Hans Petter Helland. 2021, 61-69, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/osla.8907
Abstract
The paper accounts for an unexpected embedded present tense, which denotes a future time in French relative clauses. The matrix displays either the periphrastic future or the simple future. In both cases, one can arguably decompose the matrix into a present tense feature and a forward shifter. This move leads to an analysis of the morphology encountered in the relative clause as an instance of Sequence of tense.