TAXIS LIMITING BORDERS

Abstract

The article deals with certain aspects of the category of taxis on the basis of the English language.
A few schools of thought are mentioned in connection with taxis; the relation of taxis with
other temporal categories is touched upon, such as tense, aspect, and time correlation. The article
focuses on the possibility of rendering several taxis situations making up different temporal periods
within one sentence. Expansion of taxis volume is suggested through the inclusion of constructions
with object clauses in modus-dictum complexes in the narrative mode into taxis relations on the
condition that the modus tense does not coincide with the moment of speech as a starting point. The
starting point is the first proposition of a poly-predicative complex. The author suggests that the notion
of dependent and independent taxis should be used only in reference to means of expressing
taxis relations. From the semantic point of view all the propositions of a poly-predicative complex
are considered to be dependent on the proposition taken as a starting point. Taxis relations of simultaneity/
precedence/ following are enlarged by adding one more relation, that of succession, which
is characteristic of sentences with homogeneous predicates and compound sentences of a successive
development of the situation rendered. The article confirms A.V. Bondarko’s observations concerning
the combination of taxis with relations of characterization, modality, conditionality.