Comparative analysis of model categories of English and Russion verbs

The article is dedicated to comparative analysis of modal categories of English and Russian verbs. The current interest of the article is that English and Russian model verbs are described within the frames of comparative analysis. English and Russian modal verbs are characterized from grammatical point of view as well as from semantic aspect. Modal verbs translation issues are treated in the article; the ways of their solving are offered.

modality, modal verbs, defective verb, multifunctional verbs, utterance, shade of meaning, semantic aspect, predicativeness