INSTRUMENTAL AND MEDIAL TAXIS IN GERMAN: CRITERIA OF DIFFERENTIATION AND MECHANISMS OF ACTUALIZATION

Abstract

This article deals with the issue of updating the taxis meanings of simultaneity and non-simultaneity in the German language. The research material is polypropositive statements based on various polypredicative and monopredicative complicated constructions. Particular attention is paid to the consideration of the actualization of primary taxis and secondary taxis meanings of simultaneity, precedence and subsequence in statements with prepositional deverbatives. In the examined statements of the primary type with monotaxis prepositions of temporal semantics während, vor, bis/bis zu, nach and seit, the primary taxis meanings of simultaneity, precedence and subsequence are actualized. In the statements of the secondary subtype with polytaxis and monotaxis prepositions of circumstantial (modal, instrumental, medial, causal, conditional, concessive, consequential, final) semantics in, bei, mit, unter, durch, vor, aus, wegen, aufgrund, dank, trotz, ungeachtet, infolge, zu, für, zwecks, per, mittels various secondary type meanings of simultaneity are actualized. Polytaxis and monotaxis prepositions function as markers of primary and secondary taxis meanings of simultaneity and nonsimultaneity. Prepositional deverbatives act as primary taxis actualizers of simultaneity, precedence, and subsequence, as well as function as various secondary taxis actualizers of simultaneity (modal taxis, instrumental taxis).