TAXIS DUALISM IN A POLYCATEGORIAL SEMANTIC COMPLEX (USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TAXIS AND THE CATEGORY OF CAUSALITY)

Abstract

This article examines the taxi polycategory semantic complex in the German language, and also
highlights the causal-taxis semantic subcomplex in the context of the intercategory interaction of the taxis
category with the category of causality. Special attention should be paid to the phenomenon of taxis dualism,
which manifests itself in the causal-taxis semantic subcomplex in German utterances with causal conjunctions and
prepositions (weil, denn, wegen, aufgrund, aus, vor). The study's material consists of German utterances with
causal conjunctions and prepositions, obtained through targeted sampling from the Leipzig National Corpus and
the Electronic Dictionary of the German Language. The study demonstrates that causal- taxis relationships in
German are characterized by a tight interweaving of causal and chronological connections. Moreover, taxis
meanings can vary, embodying both simultaneity and heterochrony, creating additional depth and versatility in the
interpretation of utterances. The identification of taxis dualism in causal constructions demonstrates how complex
and multifaceted the interaction of semantic categories can be.