On One Type of Subordinate Subject Clauses and their Relation to the Absolute and Relative Tense Cover Image

K jednomu typu vedlejších vět podmětových a k jejich vztahu k relativnímu a absolutnímu času
On One Type of Subordinate Subject Clauses and their Relation to the Absolute and Relative Tense

Author(s): Marta Koutová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: subordinate subject clause; subordinate content clause; absolute tense; re-lative tense

Summary/Abstract: The article looks into the competition of the absolute and relative tense in the dependent clauses introduced by adjectival predicates with the meaning of evaluation (bylo + adjective). In the linguistic literature, it was so far argued that these clauses can only have relative tense if an evaluator expressed by a noun or pronoun in the dative is (or, may be) included. However, on the basis of corpus analysis, the author of the article found out that the relative tense in these sentences occur in many other cases as well.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 41-46
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Czech
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