Miejsce czasu przyszłego w systemie czasów gramatycznych, jego struktura i funkcje pragmatyczne

The place of Future Tense in the system of grammatical tenses, its structure and pragmatic function

The variability of not only Slavic futural constructions stems from the inefficacity of this tense, which leads to taking a subjective attitude towards the future. This attitude is expressed through a whole range of shades, beginning with a passive desire, expectation, conviction, and ending with decisiveness or a sense of duty. The choice of a specific form of the future tense, and of a specific form of auxiliary word does not reduce any expression of futurity to one kind of modality, which, after all, becomes in a high degree, blurred, but partly affects the attitude of a specific linguistic group towards the past, at least in the period of that tense`s formation.