THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES AND THE TEMPORAL INTERPRETATION OF THE RUSSIAN GERUND AND THE SPANISH NON-PERIPHRASTIC GERUND

The article contrasts the Russian gerund (the deepričastie form) and Spanish non-periphrastic from a morphosyntactic semantic point of view. foundation research is converb, non-finite verb form that expresses adverbial subordination. Based on this definition, we first try to ascertain whether can be considered part aforementioned category. Furthermore, focus category tense, which divided into an absolute relative thus  analyze how express temporal relations. Special attention paid description expression aspect in researching differences affect interpretation gerunds. representative examples taken parallel Russian-Spanish corpus, finally primary meanings gerunds, i.e., simultaneity, anteriority, posteriority. Using contrastive analysis, conclude due their aspectual properties, as converbs are not entirely same, why they do always match when expressing