Slovak Verbal Derivatives in Background Taxis Constructions
Slovak Verbal Derivatives in Background Taxis Constructions

Summary/Abstract: Taxis semantics expresses simultaneity, precedence and posteriority of events in the time span. Taxis construction contains two propositions in the sentence. Background taxis usually appears in complex sentences with circumstantial clauses, where taxis semantics plays a subdominant role. A verbal derivative, which inherits tense and aspect semantic components from its original verb form, is able to participate in background taxis constructions. Semantic peculiarities of the verb predict its involvement in the taxis construction. The objective of this paper is to clarify how verbal derivatives function in background taxis constructions in Slovak.

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