“The Time Will Come, and the Moment Will Be Right”: An Anniversary Tribute to V. I. Dahl

Aim. To present multidimensional analysis of the expression pridyot vremya, budet i pora (‘the time will come, and the moment will be right’) which represents the organic and inseparable unity of folk philosophy, Russian culture and language.

Methodology. The research base of the article was developed using philological, descriptive, structuralsemantic and functional-semantic methods.

Results. It has been established that the metaphor fixed in the language system the pridyot vremya (‘time will come’) forms a model in which the temporal perspective is perceived as an objectively deterministic process that has its own dynamics. The expression pridyot vremya, budet i pora represents a unified functional complex in which the grammatical subjects act as semantic subjects, participants in processes: time is a moving agent, proper time is an emerging state. The statement becomes an objective prediction when necessity is presented as a natural consequence of the passage of time.

Research implications. The results of the research expand the understanding of time conceptualisation. The analysis algorithm implemented in the article can be used for linguistic description of statements serving as means of expression of temporality.

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