‚Tempuskontrolle‘ im Deutschen und Polnischen
‘Tense control’ – coreference of time forms with the real time

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the concept of generative control, allowing for the allocation of semantic role of the subject in related infinitive groups without the possibility of syntactic realization of the role, the author postulates the introduction of the concept of hypothetical tense control responsible for the coreference of time forms with the real time. Based on examples from the body of research one points to the need or legitimacy of such a category of research – especially in relation to the Polish language. It is very reasonable because the directory forms of time in both languages are significantly different – with a clear numerical superiority in German. This fact causes that the Polish language needs therefore support in the implementation of the mentioned coreference on syntactic level, while German realizes it on the morphology plane. In German, the need to postulate tense control can be seen only where the indicative and the subjunctive come together, i.e. mainly in the indirect speech and the hypothetical comparative sentences.

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