ИСТИНА

The concept of LIMIT (temporal delimitation of a situation) is a semantic dominant in Russian, that is to say а concept that expresses a fundamental idea characterized by frequency, different forms of expression (lexical, morphological and syntactical) and low awareness and intentionality. This concept has gotten a status of categorical in word-formation and grammar as well as in lexis, being a conceptional basis of terminative and non-terminative verbs, temporal procedurals (Aktionsarten) and grammar category of aspect.This report studies the features of this concept's expression in lexis, based primarily on the analysis of the semantics and use of the word limit, as well as its derivatives.