Abstract
The aim of this paper1 is to show that the 1-compound, which became particularly common in the 16th and 17th centuries, differed considerably according to its syntactic nature, i. e. (i) kinds of antecedents, (ii) relations of the relative clause to the antecedents and (iii)functions of a relative pronoun with its preposition (or the where-compound)in a clause as (A) prepositional objects of a verb, an adjective, and an equivalent expression, and (B) adverbials (as adjuncts). Circumstantial relations such as TEMPORAL, LOCATIVE, PROCESS, RESPECT, and CONTINGENCY are considered in (B). The discussion is mainly based on examples having non-personal antecedents from shakespeare's tragedies.
