Taxis in the context of the intracategorical syncretism (based on the material of different structural languages)

Arkhipova I. V.

This article deals with the issue of actualization the taxis semantics of simultaneity and non-simultaneity in the context of intra-categorical syncretism in different structural languages (German, English, Dutch, Russian and Polish). Intra-categorical syncretism in the sphere of taxis values of simultaneity/non-simultaneity is determined by the heterogeneous semantics of polysemical prepositions in German, English, Dutch, Russian and Polish. Polysemical prepositions in, bei, mit, unter, durch, in, by, with, at, on, upon, bij, met, под, при, do are polytaxis and mark several varieties or variants of taxis categorical situations (in particular, temporal-, instrumental-, medial-, modal-, causal, conditional- and final-taxis), actualized in various taxis semantic subcomplexes of simultaneity and non-simultaneity.

Keywords:taxis, syncretism, intra-categorical syncretism, polysemical prepositions, polytaxis prepositions, taxis semantic subcomplexes, taxis categorical situations.