SEMINAL CONTENT OF PREPOSITIONS-APPROXIMATORS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND THEIR CORRELATES IN THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of the semantic content of units of the approximate type, i.e. prepositions-approximators in the Russian language and their correlates in the Persian language. In the Russian language, prepositions-approximators are used in situations characteristic of them, but in the Persian language the lexical meaning of approximation is expressed by synonymous words حدود، نزدیک، تا، حوالی, between the meanings of which there is no specific boundary. Also, the same Persian word with the meaning of approximate can be expressed by different Russian prepositions, the use of which can cause difficulties of a different nature for Iranian students. Thus, the noun حدود with the meaning of approximate can be expressed by prepositions-approximators около, с, под, порядка. The work pays special attention to the problem of distinguishing prepositions-approximators with the meanings of indefinite quantity, approximate quantity and probable quantity, the content side and features of the functioning of which have not yet been studied significantly in the Russian language in comparison with the Persian language. In the article, based on the visual method, visual means of the scale and the starting point on it, prepositions-approximators are systematized and ordered, their precise explanations of semantic content are given, the methods of their expression in the Persian language are studied in order to promote the conscious assimilation of prepositions-approximators by Iranian students of Russian.The novelty of the article lies in the fact that not only for the first time in Iranian Russian studies are prepositions-approximators compared with each other in relation to the point of reference and in terms of their semantic content, but also their Persian correlates are being studied. The results of the study can be applied to optimize methods of teaching prepositions-approximators in Iranian audiences and, accordingly, to further neutralize typical mistakes of Iranian Russian students and translators.