Related taxis: semantic and ways of expression (in Slovak language)

The article discusses the status of taxis category and set of tools for its explication in Slovak. We regard taxis in the aspect of functional grammar in accordance with principles of Petersburg scientific school. Taxis semantics expresses relations of different actions (simultaneity, precedence and following) in the whole period of time. In the case of related taxis we have surbodinate and dominant actions. The Slovak taxis hasn't been studied systematically and ways of its explication was described fragmentary. We found out that relative taxis in Slovak can be expressed by morphological and syntactic means. Doplnok (infinitive as an object) and verbal nouns can be considered as specific for Slovak language tools for explication of relative taxis.