CATEGORY OF TAXIS AND PECULIARITIES OF ITS EXPRESSION IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
The article describes the taxi category and analyzes its relationship with the categories of time correlation, the coordination of tenses in complex sentences with an attributive subordinate clause, and examines the features of their expression in French. The category of taxis is considered as a functional and semantic field formed due to the interaction of various means of this language, United by the semantics of temporal relations between actions - components of a polypredicative complex within an integral time period. In French, the functional - semantic field of taxis can be described as a monocentric field with a pronounced nuclear component.