Prospectivity in Khanty and Russian

Khanty and Russian share similar lexical means of expressing prospectivity as functional-semantic category, describing a temporal phase located close before the initial boundary of the situation expressed by the main verb. Despite the external similarity of the lexical means in Khanty and Russian, they demonstrate different strategies of combining the prospective semantics with different grammatical categories: in Khanty the particle śi can be treated as an aspectual and pragmatic marker, while in Russian synonymous adverb вот-вот combines semantics of prospectivity with modal meaning.