EXPRESSING A PROPOSITIONAL MEANING IN THE CATEGORY OF REALIS/IRREALIS (in the example of the English and Uzbek languages)
Abstract
The article discusses typological application of the concept of “realis/irrealis”, serious approach to functional universals and the definition of grammatical typology. Moreover, the importance of existing the same indicator of negative grammatical form of the realis or irrealis event as the affirmative has been analysed.
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