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Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions

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dc.contributor.author Mitkovska, Liljana
dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-25T11:30:42Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-25T11:30:42Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Slověne = Словѣне. International Journal of Slavic Studies; Vol 8, No 2 (2019) en
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12528/1898
dc.description.abstract This paper analyses the constructions with a reflexive marker on the verb and a dative argument experiencing a state, such as necessity or craving/desire for something. They occur in all Slavic languages, with varied scope of distribution, but this research focuses on their use in South Slavic languages: Macedonian, Bulgarian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), in which such constructions have a wide distribution. Although these types of clauses have been studied a lot, there are still contentious issues regarding their nature. Assuming that this particular combination of the reflexive marker with a dative argument represents a steady construction with specific formal properties we argue that its semantics cannot be computed from the meanings of the structures involved. The construction contains as part of its meaning a covert modal component of necessity, which cannot be explained as an inherited feature, neither from the reflexive, nor from the dative marker. Moreover, this component is of a more complex nature, ranging from a strong urge to inclination and craving. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the nature and the origin of this modality. Adopting a Construction Grammar approach we assume that the specific semantic-pragmatic features of the construction are a result of particular constraints operating on the morpho-syntactic and semantic features of the constituent components. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject modalność en
dc.subject modality en
dc.subject diateza en
dc.subject diathesis en
dc.subject diateza en
dc.subject South Slavic languages en
dc.subject języki południowosłowiańskie en
dc.subject dative en
dc.subject celownik en
dc.title Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions en
dc.type Article en


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