Candidate of Philological Sciences, Yugra State University Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia [email protected]
Abstracr. This article is devoted to the study of adverbial participial constructions used in the dependent part of taxis construction in the Mari language. Adverbial participles are analyzed using three parameters: referentiality, taxis specificity, combination with finite verbs. Reference parameter involves two meanings: the same first participant of the situations P1 and P2; different first participants of the situations P1 and P2. It is revealed that in the Mari language heterosubjective structures with adverbial participles on -meke and -meshke occur with the same frequency as monosubjective structures. However, adverbial participles on -shyla mainly form monosubjective structures. We also consider the adverbial participle as a central syntactic-morphological means of expressing dependent taxis relations (anteriority, synchronism and posteriority). In the Mari language, the meaning of simultaneity is more often expressed by the adverbial participle that ends with -shyla, as well as by the adverbial participles ending with -n, -de. The meaning of interrupted precedence may be expressed by adverbial participle on -shyla, as well as adverbial participleon - meke can be used to express distant precedence. The meaning of posteriority can be expressed by adverbial participle on -meshke. Adverbial participle on -shyla, which basically has the meaning of simultaneity, can also be used in the meaning of interrupted precedence. Adverbial participle on - meshke can express actions that take place after the action of the main verb, as well as to express the action, which is preferred by another action. In the Mari language, all forms of adverbial participle, which express the situation P1, can be combined with finite verbs in all tense forms.
Key words: taxis, taxis relations, the Mari language, dependent taxis, adverbial participle, referentiality, participant, anteriority, synchronism, posteriority.