GERMAN AFFIX DEVERBATIVES AND THEIR TAXIS FUNCTIONS

This article considers German affixal deverbative nouns in -en, -ung, -t, -e in the aspect of actualizationof their taxis functions, implemented in statements with various prepositions. The purpose of the study is to describe thetaxis functional of deverbatives of various derivational models that inherit the lexical and verbal semantics of generatingverbs and participate in the process of actualization of primary-taxis and second-taxis meanings of simultaneity,precedence and succession. Affixal deverbatives of different lexical and derivational semantics become taxis participants,provided they retain their verbal and taxis semantics, as well as the property of reverbalizability, which allows them to be transformed back into the corresponding generating verbs. Affixal “reverbalizable” deverbatives realize their taxis functions of simultaneity / non-simultaneity in statements containing temporal and other adverbial prepositions. Prepositional-deverbative constructions are transformed into temporal clauses and other adverbial clauses withconjunctions of similar semantics when the deverbative is reverbalized into a generating verb. A diagnostic test forreverbalization confirms their verbal and taxis potencies, contextually realized as specific taxis functions. The mainresearch methods are hypothetical-deductive, inductive, descriptive, contextual and transformational. The results of the study make a certain contribution to the theory of taxis and can be used to conduct further research in the field of functional grammar, analyzing the functionality of verbal names in other languages, including in the comparative typological aspect

deverbatives, affixal deverbatives, taxis, primary taxis, secondary taxis, taxis functions