The paper presents the characteristic of the quantity category in verbal groups in Russian. There are three basic types of the plural situations: multiplicative, distributive. and iterative. This paper provides a description of the verbal and non-verbal lexical means of conveying the accurate meanings of the category of verbal discreteness. This study also addresses the issue of deploying aspect in the contexts of limited and unlimited iterativity. We adopt a modified version of V Chrakovskys classification of the semantic plurality situation-types presented in his monograph Typology of Iterative Constructions.

This paper analyses the use of Polish achievements with durative expressions of godzinę (in an hour) and przez godzinę (for an hour) – types, their use in the progressive and finally a possible relationship between this use and the terminative recategorisation of imperfective achievements. In the analysis we have accounted for a number of linguistic and contextual factors that influence the possibility of the progressive use of achievements. This has allowed us to propose several subclasses of achievements that may undergo recategorisation under specific conditions set in the concluding section.