Finiteness and nonfinite forms

GLOSSARY
Cultural phenomenon – also known as the bandwagon effect,occurs when certain individuals behave a certain way merely because other individuals do as well
Cross-cultural analysis – is based on comparing and contrasting languages and cultures. It consists in cognitive interpretation of a) culturally and conceptually relevant language units in the text (linguoculturemes); b) universal and nationally-specific properties of language units including texts; c) cultural concepts manifesting particular domains.
Culture specific concept – a culture specific and nationally oriented unit, a multifold mental structure consisting of notional, image-bearing and evaluative layers and characterized by emotional, expressive components and associative links
Linguistic personality – a manifold, multi-component and structurally organized set of language competences, a certain linguistic correlate of spiritual world of a personality in the integrity of his social, ethnic, psychological, aesthetic characteristics.
Linguistic world picture – the verbal explication of the conceptual world picture, a means of transferring information about the world, people, relations.
Linguocultereme  a complex interlevel language unit, a dialectical unit of both linguistic and extralinguistic factors, the correlation between the form of a verbal sign, its semantic content and cultural sense. The sources of cultural information in a linguocultureme are specific for each cultural phenomenon: realia, myths, images, believes, outstanding people, customs and traditions.
Linguocultural field  a hierarchical system of linguistic units used in the text and characterized by mutually correlated and interdependent meanings expressing a system of corresponding cultural notions.
Linguoculturology (cultural linguistics) – a new interdisciplinary science aimed to investigate the correlation between language and culture, between linguistic meanings and the concepts of universal and national cultures.
Non-equivalent lexicon – words which express notions non-existing in other cultures and which have no equivalents in other langu