Light and Difficult Existence in the World Picture and the Russian Verb Perfective Aspect Pragmatics
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2025-1-25-32
Abstract
Aim. To substantiate the Difficulty – Lightness of existence opposition in the Russian World Picture, to detect and enumerate the language means for its indication.
Methodology. When analyzing the Semantic Types of Verbal Pairs and modes of action of the Verb, the units expressing the existence difficulty were being were identified. When analyzing he Simple Sentence types, structures with the existence lightness meaning were being discovered. The two meanings were projected onto the Russian World Picture. Methods of observation and lexical-syntactic analysis are used.
Results. The article has detected: a) 3 semantic types of Verbal Pairs and 2 modes of Action expressing the existence difficulty meanings; b) 4 Simple Sentence structures and their lexical realization (where the Perfective Verbal Aspect in its Pragmatics is the central language means) expressing the existence lightness; c) the correlation of lightness of existence with the concept “daring” in the Russian World Picture.
Research implications. Gained research results widen the picture of Perfective Aspect Pragmatic potential. Gained language and speech facts can be inserted into Russian as a Foreign Language practical courses (Syntax, Lexicology, Culturology).
About the Author
O. K. Grekova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga K. Grekova – Cand. Sci. (Philology), Assoc. Prof., Department of Russian for Foreign Students of Philological Faculty
Leninskye Gory 1, Moscow 119991
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