The article explores the features of the titles and annotations of Russian-language and English-language scientific articles. The authors analyze translations into English made by Russian authors and identify the most common errors and shortcomings. Recommendations are given on how to make author's abstracts meet the standards of the English language and the requirements of English-language scientific publications.

The article considers the implementation of the reflective categories in the Russian language. Based on the example of the category of locativity, it presents the potential to convey various meanings both at the lexical and syntactical levels. Special attention is paid to the context and verbal situation as the factors determining the modus.

There are described the pronominal (non-derivative) adverbs as deictic elements of the language. There is researched their outer and inner form, different aspects of locality semantics realized in them; revealed some peculiarities (including national and mental) of the suggested words usage in speech.