GERMAN SUBSTANTIVIZED INFINITIVES AND THEIR TAXIS CHARACTERISTICS: FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC ASPECT

Authors

  • Irina V. Arkhipova Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University

Keywords:

functional and semantic aspect, substantive infinitive, complex derivative substantive infinitive, lexicalization, verbogenicity, taxicity, taxic properties, procedural names on–(e)n, action names on –(e)n, taxic categorical meanings

Abstract

This article is devoted to the consideration of German substantivized infinitives in the functional-semantic aspect. The issues of describing substantive infinitives in various aspects (derivational, cognitive, diachronic, comparative, translational, functional-semantic, and others), as well as their functioning in various types of discourse, are considered in the works of a number of domestic researchers. The aim of the study is to describe the taxis properties of substantivized infinitives of the German language, which are part of prepositional-nominal combinations. Substantivized infinitives, being «lexical products» of the transposition process, inherit the verbogenicity of the producing verbs. Along with verbogenicity, they retain the taxis properties of the verbs that undergo substantivization. The study established that the names of actional and procedural semantics are capable, when combined with prepositions, of realizing the taxis categorial meanings of simultaneity and non-simultaneity. When used with temporal prepositions, lexicalized substantivized infinitives (simple, prefixed) actualize the temporal-tactic meanings of simultaneity / non-simultaneity. In combination with other prepositions, they participate in the actualization of modal-tactic, conditional-tactic, final-tactic and other categorial meanings of simultaneity. Particular attention is paid to the consideration of complex-derivative substantivized infinitives. Their fundamental difference from simple and prefixed names is that they can be used as usual and occasional formations. Nominal composites of procedural and actional semantics, when used with prepositions, also realize their taxis properties.

Published

2024-12-20

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ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ГРАММАТИКА