Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions
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 langu...
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| description | 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.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b6bccd145af64401a697ba6b9d8896bc2022-12-21T22:26:15ZbulMoscow State University of EducationSlovene2304-07852305-67542019-12-0182260287270Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative ConstructionsLiljana Mitkovska0FON University / Silesian University Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia / Katowice, PolandThis 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. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2019.8.2.10http://slovene.ru/ojs/index.php/slovene/article/view/468reflexivedativediathesismodalityconstruction grammargrammatical construction |
| spellingShingle | Liljana Mitkovska Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions Slovene reflexive dative diathesis modality construction grammar grammatical construction |
| title | Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions |
| title_full | Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions |
| title_fullStr | Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions |
| title_short | Types of Modality in South Slavic Stative Reflexive-Dative Constructions |
| title_sort | types of modality in south slavic stative reflexive dative constructions |
| topic | reflexive dative diathesis modality construction grammar grammatical construction |
| url | http://slovene.ru/ojs/index.php/slovene/article/view/468 |
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