UNIVERSAL AND CULTURAL LAYERS AT THE CORE OF THE CONCEPT TIME (IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN)
The structure of the concept time core in English and German is analyzed in the article. The author considers the universality of this concept and attempts to describe the core of the concept time and lexical and grammatical means of expressing it both in English and German. The article studies correlations between universal and cultural layers at the core of the given concept in both languages. It also compares cognitive models of verbalization of the concept time in these languages.