Idio-Ethnics of Grammatical Systems in English and Belarusian
In the article, verb-forms contributing to the specificity of the grammatical systems in English and Belarusian are identified on the basis of the contrastive approach, and further analysed. These are Continuous Tense forms and Perfect Tense forms in English, and Plusquamperfect forms and forms of Complex Future II in Belarusian. In the course of the analysis of the grammar data of the two languages, the semantic characteristics of these forms are summarized - both prototypical meanings and meanings derived from them, which indicate a complex and ambiguous correlation of the semantics of the verb-forms in English and Belarusian.