Instrumental Taxis in the Context of Inter-Categorial Interaction (Based on the Material of the German Language)

   The problem of inter-categorial interaction and interdependence of functional-semantic categories of taxis and instrumentality remains today outside the field of scientific consideration of modern linguists.
   The purpose of this article is to describe the issue of intercategorial interaction of the functional-semantic subcategory of taxis of simultaneity and the category of instrumentality in the context of linguistic representation of instrumental-taxis categorical situations of simultaneity in modern German.
   The main objectives of this study were the description of various instrumental-taxis categorial situations of simultaneity (regulatory, performing, effective) and the determination of their prototypical elements (instrumental prepositions, causative verbs of purposeful physical / mental impact, actional / procedural deverbatives, etc.)
   During the research, the following general scientific and linguistic methods were used: descriptive, contextual, classification method, as well as techniques of component and distributive analysis. In the course of the study, it was found that the intercategorial interaction of the categories of taxis and instrumentalities is a factor that determines the constitution of the instrumental-taxis semantic syncret-complex of simultaneity in German statements with taxis prepositions of instrumental semantics. As a result of the study, various instrumental-taxis categorial situations of simultaneity were identified, which are actualized in statements with polytaxis and monotaxis prepositions of instrumental semantics mit, durch, unter, mittels and per. Taxis markers of instrumental semantics, as well as causative verbs of purposeful physical or mental impact and actional / procedural deverbatives, acting, in turn, as taxis actualizers, were identified as prototypical constituents of instrumental-taxis categorial situations of simultaneity in German.

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