Multiplicative and iterative deverbatives as a means of taxis actualization (based on the German language)

Abstract

The semantics of multiplicity (iteration, multiplicativity) is studied in the sphere of verbal and nominal plurality. The relevance of this study is related to the consideration of deverbative nouns of multiplicative and iterative semantics as a means of updating taxic meanings. The material of the study was German phrases with deverbative-multiplicatives and deverbative-iteratives selected by the targeted search method from the electronic database of the Leipzig National Corpus. In the course of the study, inductive, deductive, descriptive, contextual and other methods were used. The article analyzes multiplicative and iterative deverbatives used with prepositions of different adverbial semantics. The purpose of the study is to describe the functions of multiplicative and iterative deverbatives that they implement in the process of taxis actualization of the values of simultaneity and diversity. The main objective of the study is to describe the semantic and taxis functionality of deverbatives with the semantics of genetic multiplicativity and genetic and word-formation iteration. As a result of the study, it was found that when used with prepositions of temporal semantics whrend, seit, vor, nach, etc. deverbative-multiplicatives and deverbative-iteratives actualize multiplicative-primary-taxis and iterative-primary-taxis meanings of simultaneity, precedence or succession. When combined with prepositions of other circumstantial semantics unter, durch, vor, wegen, aufgrund, dank, trotz, ungeachtet, infolge, zu, fr, zwecks, etc., the considered German deverbatives take part in the actualization of various variants of multiplicative-secondary-taxis meanings of simultaneity, in particular, modal-taxis, instrumental-taxis, medial-taxis, causal-taxis, concession-taxis, etc. Multiplicative and iterative deverbatives perform the function of multiplicative-taxis and iterative-taxis participants.