The research into the use of verbal tenses in Czech subordinate clauses is based on the notions of relative and absolute tenses, and on the distinction between content and adjunct clauses. While the relative tense is expected to be expressed in content clauses and the absolute tense in adjunct clauses, there are some counterexamples to this generalization. Although it is typical for content clauses to rely on relative tenses, it appears that in some cases absolute tenses are applied in these subordinate clauses as well. I focused on this phenomenon in content clauses with imperfective verbs in the past tense expressing the present in the past. Based on the data from the Czech National Corpus, I found out that several interrelated factors play a key role in the use of the past tense expressing the present in the past in content clauses. These are discussed in detail in this paper.
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The study is concerned with temporal meaning of Czech adjectives of the types -ící/-oucí (1) and -(v)ší (2) which are – by and large – paradigmatically derived from imperfective (1) and perfective (2) verbs. In opposition to the traditional view, linking their relative time meaning with the absolute time expressed by the respective predicate, a different and probably more adequate analysis is proposed, relating it to the time included in the denotative information of the corresponding noun. In rare cases, the adjectives are derived from an unusual base, e.g. the type (1) from a perfective verb – their grammaticality is also discussed here.
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