Původci sdělení v souvětích s větami obsahovými a jejich vliv na užívání absolutních a relativních časů
The originators of the message in the sentences with content clauses and their impact on the use of absolute and relative tenses

Summary/Abstract: Based on the analysis of the Czech National Corpus, we have found that, in addition to the assumed use of tenses (relative in content clauses, or rather, absolute in adjunct clauses), there are also variations in their use; in content clauses, absolute tenses are used in certain cases, and, on the other hand, the relative tense may be used in some of the adjunct clauses. Using the corpus evidence in this article, we show that the use of verb tenses in subordinate content clauses and all adjunct clauses explicitly or implicitly dependent on them is ruled by the speaker’s point of view: whether they look at the action of the content clause from their perspective, or whether they adopt the perspective of the primary agent. If a tense is used from the speaker’s perspective, it is an absolute tense, in case of the primary agent’s perspective, it is a relative tense.

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