Non-subjective valence of the German verb "fliegen" and the Russian verb "to fly"(comparative aspect)

This article is devoted to the study of the problems of non-subjective valence of the German verb "fliegen" and its Russian equivalent "to fly" in a comparative aspect. The subject of the research in the article is the identification of indicators of the non-subjective valence of the above-mentioned verbs. The purpose of the study is to identify similarities and differences in the functioning of the non-subjective valence of the corresponding verbs in German and Russian. The study was conducted on the basis of examples from lexicographic sources of the German dictionaries Duden Universalwörterbuch, Langenscheidts Großwörterbuch, "Wörter und Wendungen" by E. Agricola and Russian dictionary sources by V.I. Dahl "Explanatory Dictionary of the living Great Russian language", "Explanatory Russian Dictionary" by S.I. Ozhegov, "The Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" by D.N. Ushakov and "The Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" by S.A. Kuznetsov. The methods of comparative analysis, semantic analysis, quantitative analysis and modeling method were used in the article. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the primary identification of similar and unique cognitive indicators of the manifestation of the non-subjective valence of the German verb "fliegen" and the Russian verb "to fly" in the study of dictionary sources. The study revealed the absence of complete similarity in the representation of nine indicators of non-subjective valence in the verbs "fliegen" and its Russian counterpart "to fly", there are only some similarities in the identified indicators, for example, the Means of movement, Direction of movement and Time of movement of a person. The German verb "fliegen" and its Russian counterpart "to fly" have both common and distinctive indicators at the qualitative and quantitative levels.