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<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>There are many languages manifesting 'sequence of tenses' system (e.g., English, Latin and so on). This means that the tense-marking of the matrix verb influences the tense-marking of the embedded verb:</div><div><br></div><div>"John TELLS me that he WILL carry out a new project".</div><div>"John TOLD me that he WOULD carry out a new project". (the tense marking in the embedded clause changes to future in the past, because the verb in the matrix clause is marked for one of the past tenses).</div><div><br></div><div>What I am interested in, are triclausal structures, where the sequence of tense acts from Clause 1 to Clause 3, missing Clause 2, where the verb is marked for a non-alternating form, e.g., infinitive:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MY QUESTION: Is it true that in languages with sequence of tenses, in structures like:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"John TOLD me (Clause 1) to be here (Clause 2) when he WOULD (Clause 3) carry out a new project"</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sequence of tenses always acts from Clause 1 to Clause 3, just as in biclausal structures like "John told me that he </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">would carry out a new project"? Or are structures like "John told me to be here when he WILL carry out / CARRIES OUT a new project" also possible?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Any comments and / or examples from people speaking any languages with SoT (including English) are </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">welcome.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best regards and thanks in advance,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.5600004196167px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>Alexander Letuchiy, Moscow</span></div></div>
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