Категориальная оппозиция предельность/ непредельность в русском и польском языках
The categorial opposition of telicity/ atelicity in the Russian and Polish languages

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates grammatical means with the help of which the categorical oppositionof telicity/ atelicity is expressed in the Russian and Polish languages with the projection on themental characteristics of their speakers. Grammatical category of aspect is put in the center ofthe investigation, with the help of which the internal time as qualitative characteristics of actionperformance is expressed, as against to the external time which is expressed by grammatical meaningsof the category of verb tense. It is asserted that the prevalence of telic verbs in speech practice of the Russian and Polish languages proves the importance of the quality of an action, bringing an actionto possible endpoint for the Slavic people

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