Analytical forms of the future in early modern high German grammars

Sažetak

Art examination of the forms of the future in Early Modern High German has shown that the analytical forms of the future: miissen/sollen/wollen + in- finitive were mainly replaced in the 16th century with the construction werden + infinitive. The paper expounds how the contemporary grammarians treated of the analytical forms of the future in their work. The shift from one analytical form (modal verb + infinitive) to the other (werden + infinitive) was duly noted by the grammarians of the Early Modern High German period and described in the proper manner.