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Abstract

Verbal nouns with the meaning of action in Russian are a special class of nouns. The article attempts to check whether speakers perceive nuances of the verbal aspect in nouns with the meaning of action, and what factors it depends on. The results of a linguistic survey of native speakers of Russian are presented. Russian verbal noun largely inherit verbal semantics and – in the presence of a suitable correlative pair – exhibit a marked tendency toward aspectual differentiation in usus. However, the combination of several factors in specific lexemes (correlation with a verb of a certain aspect, presence or absence of aspectual markers, type of transpositional suffix, absence of a correlative pair, low usage in speech) can lead to the appearance of idiosyncratic aspectual features in them.