- PII
- S0373-658X0000377-7-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/SX0000377-7-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 2
- Pages
- 99-120
- Abstract
- The article is a corpus-based study of two modal constructions in Iron Ossetic; both of them are not mentioned in standard grammars. One of the constructions conveys participant-external possibility and the other one – participant-internal possibility (in terms of [van der Auwera, Plungian 1998]). I examine morpho-syntactic and semantic peculiarities of the constructions and compare them to the Russian dative-infinitive construction. I also consider grammatical means for participant-external and participant-internal possibilities in other Caucasian and Iranian languages and propose grammaticalization paths of the Ossetic possibility constructions. The typological value of the discovered Ossetic constructions is a grammatical opposition of participant-internal possibility and participant-external possibility; a kind of opposition which to the best of my knowledge has not been attested in the typology of modality. The Ossetic possibility constructions support, on grammatical grounds, the division of non-epistemic possibility to participant-internal and participant-external possibilities, the division which, according to typological studies of modality, was first made mainly on semantic grounds.
- Keywords
- areal linguistics, possibility, Iranian languages, Caucasian areal, modality, Ossetian language
- Date of publication
- 02.08.2025
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 576
RAS Social ScienceGosudarstvo i pravo
- ISSN (Print) 1026-9452
- ISSN (Online)2713-0398
TWO CONSTRUCTIONS OF POSSIBILITY IN OSSETIC
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