Temporal connectors in the German language

The article deals with the linguistic content of the notion "connector", it highlights its General and particular properties and the ability of connectors to express taxic relations as well. It explains the need to distinguish connectors as a special section of lexical and grammatical elements. Connectors with their syntactic and semantic content create the coherence of the text and determine its structure, so one of the main tasks and the the purpose of the article is to describe their functional properties. The criteria for recognizing the connector in the text are analyzed according to the linguistic theory of the syntactic school of the Institute of German language in Mannheim. In addition to the connection function, the connector as a word with internal semantics can carry an additional meaning in the connection of sentences, in particular, the connector can express the correlation of tenses. In German, there are three tenses that correspond to the present: preceding, simultaneous, and following one action after another, so the article provides various examples to demonstrate the role of the connector in sentences. Based on the main property of the connector - an unchangeable word form and the absence of case features, as connectors can be used adverbs and forms of short adjectives such as davor, vorher, gleichzeitig, danach, früher, später. These connectors were analyzed from the point of view of expressing temporal relations.