Comparative Analysis of the Category of Definiteness/Indefiniteness in the English, Tatar and Russian Languages
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the means expressing the concept of definiteness/indefiniteness and its realization in the English, Tatar and Russian languages. The aim of scientific research is to determine the specifics of the definiteness/indefiniteness category use in the compared languages, to identify similarities, differences and adequate translation of the category in English, Tatar and Russian. The research objectives are to study the theoretical foundations of this problem, to conduct a comparative analysis of the means expressing the category of definiteness/indefiniteness in the English, Tatar and Russian languages. The hypothesis of the study suggests that they have universal and specific means expressing this category, since the concept of definiteness/indefiniteness underlies any communicative activity and is a universal category characteristic of any language. The method of comparative analysis, the linguistic translation method and the method of analytical description of linguistic phenomena are used in the research paper. The results of this study show that the definiteness/indefiniteness category also finds linguistic realization in languages that differ in grammatical structure like the English, Tatar and Russian languages, but certain language methods at different language levels are used to express this category.