Vid i kategorija vežlivosti v slavjanskom imperative: Sravnitel'nyj analiz.

Verbal Aspect and Politeness in the Slavic Imperative. A comparative analysis. The research focuses on the pragmatic implications of politeness in connection with the different use of verbal aspect in the imperative in the Slavic languages. Attention is concentrated on the fact that in imperative forms the verbal aspect may have pragmatical implications as regards interlocutor distance and politeness (or impoliteness) resulting thereof. Requests for actions that are expressed with the perfective aspect are more neutral, “correct”, formal, because of the interpersonal distance that characterizes them, while those expressed with the imperfective are more informal, direct and therefore potentially impolite. The research, first and foremost carried out on Russian language material, has in a second stage been expanded to include all living Slavic standard languages. From a comparison between these languages interesting observations arise on the different codification of the grammatical category of verbal aspect in the various Slavonic languages. Finally the results from these researches are applied to a non- Slavic language that is has the category of verbal aspect: Greek.