The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian

I explore the ongoing language change in which the impersonal modal word možno ‘can, be possible’ takes a personal clause ( možno  +  nom ) as its complement instead of the Experiencer in the Dative case ( možno  +  dat) and the infinitival clause in the speech act of request in Contemporary Russian...

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Published in:	Russian linguistics Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 133 - 164
Main Author:	Zhamaletdinova, Elmira
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2022
Subjects:	Historical Linguistics Linguistics Regional and Cultural Studies Russian Social Sciences Syntax Request Language change Russian Modal constructions Corpus
ISSN:	0304-3487, 1572-8714
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