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Verbal and non-verbal means of expressing future reference in Russian, Turkish, and Tatar

Sibel Ozdemir
Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod
Submitted: May 12, 2026
Abstract. The research aims to determine how future reference is formed in Russian, Turkish, and Tatar through the interaction of verbal and non-verbal means. The study is based on corpus data involving nine forms of verbs of motion: Russian “пойду”, “буду идти”, and “завтра иду”; Turkish “gideceğim”, “giderim”, and “gidiyorum”; and Tatar “барачакмын”, “барырмын”, and “барам” (‘I will go’, ‘I will be going’, ‘I am going tomorrow’). The article analyzes morphological future tense forms, the futurate present, temporal localizers, and modal-discursive markers. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that, based on corpus material from three structurally diverse languages, an asymmetric dependence was identified between the morphological autonomy of the verb form and the functional load of non-verbal means. It was established that the forms “пойду”, “gideceğim”, and “барачакмын” possess a higher degree of morphological autonomy: they establish the orientation toward the future, while temporal localizers used with them primarily serve to clarify, specify, or narrow the temporal perspective. Present tense forms in futurate use – “завтра иду”, “gidiyorum”, and “барам” – acquire future meaning mainly through the support of temporal adverbs and the context of planning. The Tatar form “барырмын”, unlike the categorical future “барачакмын”, is more closely linked to modal-discursive interpretation, expressing not only future orientation but also suppositions, decisions, agreements, or the speaker’s attitude toward the future action. As a result, it is shown that future reference in Russian, Turkish, and Tatar is a multi-level functional-semantic system in which morphology, temporal localization, modality, and discursive context perform distinct yet interrelated functions.
Key words and phrases:
будущая референция
функционально-семантическое поле будущего
глагольные и неглагольные средства выражения будущего
футуративное настоящее
временные локализаторы
future reference
functional-semantic field of the future
verbal and non-verbal means of expressing the future
futurate present
temporal localizers
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