Sprachliche Merkmale der erlebten Rede im Deutschen und Polnischen

In this study, free indirect speech (erlebte Rede) in German and Polish is regarded not only as a way of rendering speech or thought, but essentially as a textual phenomenon. The main focus is on spatial and temporal reference (temporal adverbs, location adverbs referring to position and dimension, tense and aspect). To explain sentences like Morgen war Weihnachten (Tomorrow was Christmas Day), the approach advocated suggests that in free indirect speech the deictic origo can be established with the aid of linguistic means alone. The use of tenses is discussed largely from the perspective of tense transposition.