TAXIS AND INSTRUMENTALITY: A POLY-CATEGORICAL SEMANTIC COMPLEX

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of inter-categorical interaction of functional-semantic categories of taxis and instrumentality, representing the corresponding polycategorical semantic complex. The article describes various versions of instrumental-taxis categorical situations that occur in a circumstantially or second-taxis multicategory semantic complex, and also identifies the main prototypical elements of statements with deverbatives with the prepositions mit, durch, unter, dank, mittels and per in instrumental meaning. In statements with prepositional deverbatives with the prepositions mit, durch, unter, dank, mittels, per, various instrumental- and medial-taxic values of simultaneity are actualized, including syncretic modal-instrumental-, causal-instrumental-, conditional-instrumental- and final-instrumental-taxis.