THE INFINITIVE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ITS EQUIVALENTS IN THE LEZGIN AND RUTUL LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article highlights the structural and semantic features of the infinitive in the English language and its equivalents (the masdar and the indefinite form) in the Lezgian and Rutul languages. The comparative treatment of these categories in these languages helps to identify the structural and typological characteristics of the infinitive / masdar in the languages being compared. The introductory part of the article provides the analysis of the views of researchers on this problem. The main content of the study is the structural-semantic and morphological analysis of the Infinitive in these languages. The authors conclude that in these languages non-finite verb forms include the Infinitive in the English language, which is equivalent to the masdar and the indefinite verb forms in the Lezgin and Rutul languages, with certain morphological structure and specific set of paradigmatic forms. The interpretation of the problem presented by the authors in the article may contribute to the theory and practice of conducting comparative studies using the material of languages belonging to different genealogical and structural types.