Taxis limiting borders

The article deals with certain aspects of the category of taxis on the basis of the English language. A few schools of thought are mentioned in connection with taxis; the relation of taxis with other temporal categories is touched upon, such as tense, aspect, and time correlation. The article focuses on the possibility of rendering several taxis situations making up different temporal periods within one sentence. Expansion of taxis volume is suggested through the inclusion of constructions with object clauses in modus-dictum complexes in the narrative mode into taxis relations on the condition that the modus tense does not coincide with the moment of speech as a starting point. The starting point is the first proposition of a poly-predicative complex. The author suggests that the notion of dependent and independent taxis should be used only in reference to means of expressing taxis relations. From the semantic point of view all the propositions of a poly-predicative complex are considered to be dependent on the proposition taken as a starting point. Taxis relations of simultaneity/ precedence/ following are enlarged by adding one more relation, that of succession, which is characteristic of sentences with homogeneous predicates and compound sentences of a successive development of the situation rendered. The article confirms A.V. Bondarko’s observations concerning the combination of taxis with relations of characterization, modality, conditionality.