Prepositional Deverbatives as a Method of Taxis Categorisation

This article examines prepositional deverbatives as a method of taxis categorisation in German, English and Dutch. Deverbatives are considered not as separate verbal formations, but as part of prepositional constructions. Prepositional deverbatives act as a prototypical means of taxis actualisation. They participate in the implementation of categorical meanings of chronological and adverbial (non-chronological) taxis of simultaneity and heterochrony. The material for the study was utterances with prepositional deverbatives, selected by the continuous sampling method from the Leipzig National Corpus (LC) and the German Electronic Dictionary (DWDS). Prepositional deverbatives, which include temporal prepositions, implement categorial meanings of chronologial taxis of simultaneity and non-simultaneity (precedence, succession). Prepositional deverbatives with non-temporal prepositions are a way of actualising the meanings of the adverbial taxis of simultaneity.