. . . – . . . , . . . : . . , , , , The article deals with the taxis relationships of the functional-semantic category of priority. The author studies them using the text material of English and American writers. Key words: taxis relationships, dependent taxis, independent taxis, implicit taxis. . . « « ». » . . , the city ever since Christmas, had not forgotten Carrie… (Dreiser, 339); had been back – , , . . (since Christmas) . e: Hurstwood, noticing the kindness, conceived better of her (Dreiser, 410), - . », « 1 , , . O. . : It seemed only yesterday to him since he was comfortable and well- to- do (Dreiser, 322), seemed: (since) was . . : (independent dependent) 2 . (conceived) : noticing ). - – ( . ), . , . P. O. 3 . - ; - – , : , , , . . : The Vances of Chicago, who had been back in « », . 574 The pages of his mind were blank, and, without effort, much he read and liked, stanza by stanza, was impressed upon those pages, so that he was soon able to extract great joy from chanting aloud or under his breath the music and the beauty of the printed words he had read (London, 57); 4) , : get, have, keep, retain: He resolved to get a tooth- brush and f rm the habit (London, 40); 5) : begin, continue, stop, interrupt, return, resume: And thereat she began to talk quickly and easily upon the subject he had suggested (London, 15); 6) : say, tell, answer, read, announce, report: She did her best to say how much she liked them and that they were beautiful (London, 144); 7) – , , : Somehow it was not so difficult to forgive him anything (London, 89). , , - , : 1) , 2) 3) - . I. . - , , - : ( ), . 1.1. . ( ), - 2 ( -2) . . -2 - , . : that, if, what, why, how: He ssumed that he had struck a deep chord (Dreiser, 127). , -2 , : 1) see, watch, hear, listen, feel, find: He didn’t notice that a young woman had entered the room (London, 10-11); 2) : know, remember, recollect, imagine, think, understand, wonder, alware, faget, believe, learn, realise, assume, admit, accept: He wondered where she had got that item of etiquette, and whether it had filtered down from above and was all right (London, 98); 3) : despise, be annoyed, blame, excuse, appreciate, prefer, enjoy, welcome, deny, be sorry, grateful: 575 1.2. . - , . , , , (that, which, who, where, when) : Mrs. Hurstwood was the type of the woman who has ever endeavoured to shine and has been more or less chagrined at the evidences of superior capability in this direction elsewhere (Dreiser, 96). -2- P-I , , - (arrangement, order, thought). , -2 – P-I : 1. , : He had a feeling of merciless anarchy let loose like thunder on the hill (Dreiser, 178). 2. - , : He was standing in a little store, where they left him for the moment (Dreiser, 401). 3. . , , ( : Her actions had passed beyond the control of her will- she never thought of control or will in the delicious madness that was upon her (London, 164). 4. , : as, as if, as...as, like, than, such as: The golden year was dying as it had lived, a beautiful and unrepentant voluptuary, and reminiscent rapture and content freighted heavily the air (London, 163). 5. . - : All I knew was that the resolution I had felt earlier that afternoon had undergone some sort of fragmentation... (Dreiser, 145). 3. , : As all this referred to something that had taken place when 1 was not there, I could neither join in nor understand what it was about (Dreiser, 159). 4. -2 , , : There is no possibility of our having missed anything (Dreiser, 131). 1.3. . : ) , , , , , , ; ) : ) (if, unless, lest, provided, once ) : She began also to think what she would have done if she had gone out into the street when she first started (Dreiser, 237). 6. . , , , , . , . . 1. , , , , : , . : He straightened up sheepishly, while the instructor stopped the car with the brake (Dreiser, 389). 2. . 576 , - : though, although, even if, whoever, whichever, whatever, however, no matter (where, how, etc.): She had one idea firmly fixed, however, which insured her security (London, 162). 7. . . »( . causa – , , , , I II.: Hurstwood walked the floor, mentally arranging the chief points of his situation (Dreiser, 226). - ), . . , , : Encouraged by his several small sales, Martin went back to hack- work (London, 222). , - -2 - , , – , , , - , . . , , , : , (-1 ( , , , .: I understand him, because after all, I had experienced the same (Dreiser, 103); This duty performed, he came home (Dreiser, 72); Reassured, he drove off into the sunset (Dreiser, 83). . - ), . -2), , 1 . , - , , , . , : . // . .: , 1972. 98 . 2 Bloomfield L., Whorf B. Linguistic Structures of Native American (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology). New York, 1946, N 6. 3 . . : . ., 1999.100 . 577