TY - JOUR

T1 - Optative in Albanian

AU - Русаков, Александр Юрьевич

AU - Морозова, Мария Сергеевна

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Albanian is the only modern language belonging to the core SAE languages which has a morphologically distinct optative. The optative mood in Albanian has two tense forms, Present and Perfect, and at least two domains of a rather regular use. The first one is the so-called performative optative, which is dedicated to the expression of different kinds of blessings, curses, and swearings. Such expressions, often having idiomatic or semi-idiomatic character, are often encountered in the colloquial speech. The second sphere, which is more characteristic of written language, includes conditional and concessive conditional clauses. The data from the Albanian National Corpus show that the optative forms, especially in their performative function, can be found in various types of texts writiten in the modern Albanian language: prosaic, poetic, religious and, more rarely, journalistic and essayistic texts. In fiction their use is stylistically restricted to the direct speech of the characters and often has an archaizing or dialectal shade.

AB - Albanian is the only modern language belonging to the core SAE languages which has a morphologically distinct optative. The optative mood in Albanian has two tense forms, Present and Perfect, and at least two domains of a rather regular use. The first one is the so-called performative optative, which is dedicated to the expression of different kinds of blessings, curses, and swearings. Such expressions, often having idiomatic or semi-idiomatic character, are often encountered in the colloquial speech. The second sphere, which is more characteristic of written language, includes conditional and concessive conditional clauses. The data from the Albanian National Corpus show that the optative forms, especially in their performative function, can be found in various types of texts writiten in the modern Albanian language: prosaic, poetic, religious and, more rarely, journalistic and essayistic texts. In fiction their use is stylistically restricted to the direct speech of the characters and often has an archaizing or dialectal shade.

KW - оптатив

KW - албанский язык

KW - наклонение

KW - перформатив

KW - придаточное причины

KW - придаточное уступки

KW - конъюнктив

U2 - 10.3917/ss.022.0029

DO - 10.3917/ss.022.0029

M3 - Article

SP - 29

EP - 55

JO - Syntaxe et sémantique

JF - Syntaxe et sémantique

SN - 1623-6742

IS - 22

ER -