Non-Indicative Wh -Complements of Possessive and Existential Predicates
Roumyana Izvorski · 1998
This paper discusses a little-studied phenomenon of a non-indicative wh-clause being interpreted as an indefinite. The phenomenon is found in Greek, Yiddish, Hebrew, and the Romance and Slavic languages. It involves the embedding of an infinitival or subjunctive wh-constituent under a possessive/existential predicate. Consider (1):