MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF THE CATEGORY OF TAXIS IN ENGLISH
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This article provides a comprehensive investigation of the morphological category of taxis in English, focusing on its structural, semantic, and functional characteristics. Taxis, which encodes the relative temporal ordering of events, is distinguished from tense by its emphasis on sequential and relational positioning rather than absolute time reference. Through the analysis of auxiliary constructions, aspectual forms, and modal combinations, this study examines how English expresses anteriority, simultaneity, posteriority, and hypothetical event sequences. The research highlights the interaction of taxis with aspect and modality, demonstrating how English speakers convey complex temporal relations and nuanced meanings in both narrative and communicative contexts. Examples from authentic discourse illustrate the role of perfect, progressive, and modal constructions in encoding event sequences, establishing causality, and enhancing narrative clarity. By integrating theoretical frameworks from morphology, syntax, and semantics, the article underscores the importance of taxis for understanding English verbal morphology, discourse organization, and cognitive strategies in temporal reasoning. The findings contribute to cross-linguistic studies, language teaching, translation, and computational applications, providing a detailed account of how English achieves precision and expressiveness in representing temporal and sequential relationships.
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