PREPOSITION AND CATEGORY OF TIME IN THE LANGUAGE. LINGUISTIC TIME (BASED ON SPANISH)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to studying of the role of temporal prepositions in expressing temporal relations in analytical languages ith reference to Spanish. The article presents arguments in favour of the idea that a temporal preposition is the main means of reflection in the language of the category of time. By analyzing provisions of the article, the author concludes that the choice of the preposition is due to its dependence more on the way a person perceives this category (that is, the linguistic time) than on the physical time, thus, the linguistic time in a language has priority over the physical time, in particular, when it comes to the use of temporal prepositions.