Abstract
This paper offers a solution to the following problems
concerning frequency relatives like “When she was
drunk, which was often, Mary smoked”: (a) Why
do frequency relatives only co-occur with restrictive
when/if -clauses in habitual/generic sentences?,
(b) What is an antecedent of the relative pronoun
which? and (c) What type of copular sentences do
frequency relatives belong to? It is proposed that adverbs
of quantification should explicitly specify sum situations
in logical representations of habitual/generic sentences.
Under the assumption that frequency relatives are
specificational, it is argued that the pre-copular relative
pronoun ought to have a logical representation containing
a sum-situation variable, and the post-copular adverb of
frequency functions as a value assigned to the variable.
