JT connects certain conjunctions to time-expressions that are not well-formed noun phrases, like "last week". and "this week". +-----CO-------+ +----JT----+ | | +--DT-+ | | | | | Until last week, I thought she liked me With time expressions that are well-formed noun phrases like "this week", no JT is necessary; the phrase can serve as a prepositional object using its ordinary J- connector. See "DT" for more discussion of time expressions.Grammar Documentation Page.