Sapozhnikova O.V.

The article offers a comparative analysis of the category of number in different structural languages: Russian and Kituba. It considers the place of these languages in the genealogical classification. The authors consider the purpose of this article to describe the same and different ways of expressing the category of numbers in the significant parts of speech in Old Russian and Russian, in Kikongo and Kituba, in modern Russian and Kituba.

The article deals with the semantic features of verbs of speaking and controversial issues of a terminology. Special attention is paid to the difficulties faced by students from Senegal when learning Russian verbs of speaking. Possible versions for assignments on this topic are presented.

Key words: verbs of speaking, semantic structure, lexical-semantic group, lexical unit, a peripheral feature, Wolof language.

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