The lexical and morphological means of the temporality expression in the Erzya and Finnish languages

The article is devoted to the study of the category of temporality. It is exposed and classified tense meanings and their shades. There is investigated the use of lexical and morphological means of the temporality expression on the data of related Finno-Ugric languages, Erzya and Finnish. It is determined the distinctive features in marking of the mentioned meanings in the Erzya and Finnish languages.