In this chapter, several constructions in Ossetic and Russian are analyzed with respect to coordination and subordination: in Ossetic, two clause combining constructions utilizing the coordinating conjunction æmæ; in Russian, causal clauses. It is …
In this paper I analyze two so-called pseudocoordinating constructions in Ossetic. In these constructions, the conjunction *ɜmɜ* ‘and’ introduces causal and complement clauses, which is not typical of coordinating conjunctions. When known tests for …
I apply the theoretical account of clause combining developed earlier based on Ossetic data to Russian causal clauses. Three Russian subordinating conjunctions are analyzed: *potomu čto* 'because', *poskolʼku* 'since' and *tak kak* 'for'. I show that …
In this paper, I analyze two clause combining strategies in Ossetic that exhibit mixed properties between coordination and subordination. I argue that the `mismatch approach' proposed by Culicover & Jackendoff (1997) and Yuasa & Sadock (2002) is best …
Correlatives are a subtype of relative constructions where the subordinate clause precedes the main clause, contains a relative pronoun or DP, and is resumed in the main clause by a full DP containing a personal or demonstrative pronoun (the …
The thesis concerns the syntax and semantics of Ossetic correlatives. First, I describe the functions of correlatives in detail. This construction is the main type of subordination in Ossetic and its frequency by far exceeds that of other subordinate …
The paper analyzes the fundamental syntactic opposition between coordination and subordination against the material of converb clauses in three Dargi dialects: Icari, Qunqi and Ashti. As a result of this research, variance of some converbs with …
This paper concerns the analysis of correlatives in the Iron dialect of Ossetic. Most of the existing analyses of correlatives in languages of the world are based on the assumption that correlatives are a subclass of relative clauses, and that the …
This paper concerns the use of forms in *-gɐ* and *-gɐjɐ* in contemporary Ossetic. Our aim is to produce a typologically informed and fine-grained account of both the syntax and semantics of these two formatives. As we will show, the main difference …