BILATERAL CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH VERB SYSTEMS

The paper focuses on the role the contrastive linguistics has got in modern philology paradigm. It presents the author’s view on the bilateral contrastive study applying to identifying isomorphic and allomorphic features of the Ukrainian and English verbs. The bilateral approach to contrastive analysis is implied as a key point of the research. The crucial stage of bilateral analysis deals with the choice of a tertium comparationis as an objective common basis reflecting similarities and differences in verbal semantics and grammar. The author gives proofs of using the verbal category “process” as a tertium comparationis for contrastive study of Ukrainian and English verbs. The choice of this basis of comparison is predominantly caused by the universal nature of the category “process”. This category is considered to have a great scientific potential for complicated contrastive study of the verbs in the sphere of their semantic and syntagmatic paradigms.