Peripheral tense and the ways of its expressing in narrative fiction

The article touches upon the problem of peripheral tense expressing temporal relations in narrative fiction. It is widely represented by lexical means, particles and phraseological units with temporal meaning which are present in almost every paragraph of speech. The paper is significant for revealing lexical and semantic means of expressing temporality, it allows to present the general system of language interpretation of time concept and the role of each component of aspect and temporal complex in this system.