APPROXIMATION: LEXICO-SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE CATEGORY OF QUANTITATY IN BELARUSSIAN AND ENGLISH
The article is dedicated to the lexico-semantic features of approximation in the Belarussian and English languages. Special attention is drawn to the problem of defining and distinguishing such quantitative meanings as "indefinite quantity", "approximate quantity" and "probable quantity". The author considers linguistic units of the lexical and syntactic levels used by native speakers in order to provide an approximate description of the objects and phenomena of the world. The study is based on the Belarusian and English proverbs and sayings derived from the collections and dictionaries.