VERBS OF MOTION IN MODERN RUSSIAN AND POLISH
Journal Title: Слов’янський збірник - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 19
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to conduct a comparative study of groups of motion verbs in Russian and Polish and to determine the extent of their functionality. The subjects of this study are the composition, semantic and grammatical features of imperfective non-prefixed verbs of motion. These verbs differ on the basis of unidirectional / non-unidirectional (multidirectional) movement. Methods of semantic, grammatical, etymological, comparative analysis, historical and descriptive methods are used in this linguistic research. Identifying differences in the functioning of Russian and Polish verbs of motion in synchrony and diachrony is the finding of the research. The comparison of Russian and Polish verbs of motion revealed some archaic features of Common Slavonic verbs of motion and some results of semantic and grammatical evolution of these verb systems. In general, Old Common Slavonic system of verbs of motion that existed before the derivation of the category of verbal aspect retains the main feature of differentiation on the basis of opposition of unidirectional and non-unidirectional (multidirectional) movement. The verbs under analysis function in a group of imperfective verbs and detect similarities in the presentation of lexical and grammatical meanings in Russian and Polish. The loss of some pairs of verbs of motion is due to two reasons in both languages: 1) the divergence of lexical meanings of these verbs in pairs, 2) the development of the productive process of derivation of aspect verb pairs, in which the non-prefixed verbs opposed to the meaning of unidirectional and non-unidirectional movement evolve into the pairs of verbs opposed to aspects: perfective or imperfective (with or without prefixes). The practical value of the research is to use its results for optimising the processes of learning Russian and Polish as foreign languages, as well as for fundamental studies of the evolution of the Slavic verb.
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Ievgenii N. Stepanov
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