Будущее несовершенного вида и инфинитивное сочетание с глаголом стать как конкурирующие конструкции в современном русском языке

Русский язык в научном освещении. 2019. Т. 1. № 37. С. 58–82.

Stoynova N.

The paper deals with the competition of two future tense markers in Modern Russian:
grammaticalized imperfective future tense form “byt’ ‘be’ + infinitive” and “undergrammaticalized”
construction “stat’ ‘become’ + infinitive”. Basing on the data of the
Russian National Corpus, two types of contexts are pointed out: those shared by these
two constructions and those in which they are not interchangeable; for each type a semantic
explanation is proposed. The data show that the stat’-construction, though acting
in many instances as a full equivalent of the byt’-future, nevertheless consistently preserves
semantic features of its non-future uses, namely, the inchoative and the contrastive
semantics. The synonymy of the two constructions under consideration is supported
by the fact that exactly the same semantic components, although to a lesser extent, are
rele vant for the byt’-future.

Keywords: русский язык, Russian language, будущее время, auxiliary verbs, вспомогательные глаголы, future tense