Taxis category in English proverbs and its transmission into Russian

The article explores the representation of taxis in English proverbs and its transmission into Russian. The authors give the definition of taxis in the course of studying the main statements of the functional-semantic conception. The process of dividing the functional-semantic field of taxis into microfields of dependent and independent taxis is explained in the article. Distinctive structural and semantic features are analyzed in the description of dependent and independent taxis, the main levels of microfields of taxis are represented. The authors give a definition of proverb based on the research of paremiologists. The main ways of translating proverbs from English into Russian are studied and explained in the article. English proverbs, which have examples of representations of taxis relations, are explored. The authors give examples of grammatical constructions that represent a certain level in the hierarchical system of taxis microfields. Ways of translating English proverbs with taxis relations into Russian are demonstrated in the article. The authors compare the functional features of the representation of grammatical units of the language, which include predicative components that convey taxis relations. Taxis meanings of distant, contact and intermittent precedence and following, complete and incomplete simultaneity and diversity of actions, as well as additional semantic signs of taxis relations are transmitted in proverbs from English into Russian. The authors also analyze similarities and differences of taxis meanings in the transmitting from English into Russian. The frequency of structures that define the representativeness of dependent and independent taxis in English proverbs is explored.