Abstract
The study aims to contrast temporal and referential meanings of the English verb tense form Present Perfect with its Russian functional equivalents in the tense structure of a text. The work is novel in that the contrastive study of the Present Perfect form and Past Perfective and Past Imperfective forms goes beyond the core meaning. The attained results have demonstrated that both the languages have isomorphic features of Perfect forms: systemic meaning of nunc precedence, meaning of quantitative temporality for a continuous action in utterances, designation of actions isolated from each other in the narrative frame of a text, expression of taxis meanings of nunc succession and nunc simultaneity in the function of transposition.
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