Actualization of the taxis simultaneity value in a concessive situation

   The aim of this article is to clarify the secondary-taxis value of simultaneity in the concessional situation in German, English, Dutch, Polish and Russian.

   The concessive construction in the context of the taxis simultaneity value actualization is “secondary”; therefore, we introduce the terms “a secondary-taxis meaning of concession” and “a secondary concessive-taxis categorical situation” into scientific use. The present study is based on the empirical material of polypropositive statements with prepositional deverbatives with monotaxis concessive prepositions, which we selected and examined. The monotaxis prepositions of the concessive semantics trotz, ungeachtet, несмотря на, невзирая на, вопреки, trots, ondanks, ongeacht, despite, in spite of, wbrew, mimo, pomimo mark only one kind of secondary taxis values – those of simultaneity-concessive-taxis. The aforementioned monotaxis prepositions of concessive semantics are markers of concessive-taxis categorical situations of simultaneity. Prepositional deverbatives of the German, Russian, Dutch, English and Polish languages act as actualizers of the secondary taxis meanings of simultaneity in concessive situations. In the course of the study, we found that iterative adverbials or attributes, word-formative-iterative deverbatives, as well as distributive multiplicity of subject/object actants of verbal actions in the examined statements with prepositional deverbatives actualize interconnected iterative-concessive-taxis, distributive-concessive-taxis and distributive-iterative-concessive-taxis categorical situations of simultaneity.

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