SPECIAL SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS WITH PERCEPTION VERBS IN FRENCH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES
The purpose of this article is to identify syntactic constructions peculiar only to perception verbs in French and Russian. The study material are examples of the National Corps of Russian language. The methods of component analysis, interpretation method are used in the work. The relevance of this study is to prove the hypothesis of the existence in different languages of special syntactic constructions inherent only to perception verbs. The research object is syntactic constructions with perception verbs. The analysis subject is specific constructions with perception verbs in French and Russian languages: infinitive sentences of French and constructions with participle of Russian. The syntactic constructions peculiar only to perception verbs have one common feature: the simultaneity of the perceived situation and the situation of perception. Constructions with perception verbs use other ways of joining. They supplement the inventory of syntactic constructions in different languages. In French and Russian perception verbs function in complex sentences. In French, the construction en train de + i nfinitive is not considered by most linguists as inherent only to perception verbs. In Russian, impersonal sentences don’t contain only perception verbs. In French, the special syntactic construction of perception verbs is an infinitive sentence. In Russian, the specific construction of perception verbs is a construction with participle in its complementary function.