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Descriptive Verbal-Nominal Structures as a Means to Express Internal Syntactic Modality of Possibility in Modern Russian |
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Olzoyeva Y.V. Doctor of Philology, associate professor, bb2005@yandex.ru |
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Russian Philology |
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81.367 |
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The article deals with the functional aspect of descriptive and nominal phrases as a means of
explicating modal meanings of the predicate in addition to the objective modality meaning of the
sentence. Descriptive Verbal-Nominal Structures (DVNS) is a way to develop the predicate. Modal
verbs and DVNS are in complex semantic relations of semantic equivalence and semantic divergence
which can be compared to synonymic relations. Modal verbs and DVNS form a functional-semantic
micro-field where verbs appear as a means of expressing nuclear modal meanings whereas DVNS
express peripheral meanings. DVNS express the meanings of desirability, possibility, intention to
perform an action, as well as that of a habitual action. DVNS with the modal meaning of possibility
are widely used to express ontological possibility. The results of this study can be used in the
functional and semantic description of Russian syntax.
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| Key words |
descriptive verbal-nominal structures, predicate, modality, external possibility,
internal possibility, name of quality, syntactic synonymy. |
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