Functional and semantic features of the infinitive in first aid and personal hygiene instructions in english and russian

The aim of the work is to study and compare functional semantic features English Russian infinitives in first aid personal hygiene instructions. paper uses such research methods as contextual-semantic analysis, which determines semantics words their mutual influence context; structural-semantic based on idea unity form content at level language speech; comparative aimed identifying similarities differences structures, well genre-content characteristics due linguistic cultural languages. As a result study, authors came following conclusions. Functional use infinitive this type medical instruction are determined by genre specifics these texts. instructions manifested different extent that explained grammatical systems languages wider causative verbs language, first-person sentences.