FUNCTIONING OF PREPOSITIONAL DEVERBATIVES IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES (BASED ON ITALIAN AND SPANISH UTTERANCES WITH TEMPORAL PREPOSITIONS)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the description of prepositional deverbatives in Romance languages (Italian and Spanish). The purpose of the study is to highlight the issue of the functioning of prepositional deverbatives with temporal prepositions in Italian and Spanish in order to identify patterns in the expression of taxis relations. The object of the study is utterances with prepositional deverbatives with temporal prepositions in Italian and Spanish. The subject of the study is taxis relations (simultaneity, precedence, following), expressed by prepositional deverbatives with temporal prepositions. The study found that in Italian and Spanish, deverbatives in combination with temporal prepositions play a key role in the implementation of taxis relations. The Italian prepositions a, durante, mentre indicate simultaneity, prima and dopo – precedence or succession. In Spanish, the prepositions hasta, desde express precedence, the preposition durante – simultaneity, and después – succession. The analysis showed that the choice of preposition unambiguously determines the temporal orientation of the action expressed by the deverbative relative to the verbal action. Italian deverbatives with the suffixes –aggio, –eggio, –izzazione, –enza, –о, –zio, –io, –ta, –zione, –sione, –ura and Spanish deverbatives with the suffixes –miento, –cion, –sion, -ada in combination with temporal prepositions actualize taxis relations. The comparative analysis revealed general tendencies and specific features in the use of temporal prepositions to express taxis meanings in Italian and Spanish.Further research could be aimed at studying a wider range of temporal prepositions and their interaction with different types of deverbatives for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of expressing taxis meanings in Romance languages, including in a comparative-contrastive light.