Semantics and Expression Means of the Subjunctive in a Literary Text in a Comparative Aspect (as Exemplified by the Russian and the English Versions of V. Nabokov’s Work "Despair")

Student: Mizgireva Marina

Supervisor: Rimma A. Ivanova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The verb is one of the key parts of speech in European languages. It has various morphological categories, in particular, a category of mood. In the present study verbal forms of the subjunctive mood in Russian and English are analysed from the linguistic point of view on the material of V.Nabokov’s novel ‘Despair’. Furthermore, the purpose of the research is creating of a parallel corpus annotated on the subjunctive constructions and building concordance for two language variants of the text.

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