Tense in Adjuncts Part 2: Temporal Adverbial Clauses

1. RECAPITULATION Part I of this article treats tense in relative clauses (RCs) in English, Russian and Japanese. The temporal centre in RCs can always be Tproi, and sometimes it has to be Tproi. 1. In SOT languages such as English, the Tense in the RC is bound in RC\wollconfigurations, i.e., we find a Tproi bound by woll. The licensing of the morphological tense in the RC is non-local in these cases. In most other constructions, the RC-Tense is deictic and tense licensing is local. 2. In Russian, a non-SOT language, the RC-Tense is bound in FUTRus\PAST configurations. In other configurations, the RC-Tense is deictic. Tense licensing is local. 3. In Japanese, another non-SOT language, the RC-Tense is bound in PRESJap\PAST configurations. In other configurations, the RC-Tense is deictic. Tense licensing is local. In Part 2 we will investigate Tense in temporal adverbial clauses (TACs) headed by after, before and when.