• The many faces of “možno” in Russian and across Slavic: Corpus investigation of constructions with the modal možno 

      Zhamaletdinova, Elmira (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-02-23)
      <p>Modality encompasses various dimensions, including semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and discourse. Traditionally, research on modality in a specific language has focused either on examining broad domains, such as possibility or necessity, encompassing all linguistic means that constitute them, or on studying the most grammaticalized modal words. This dissertation explores the properties of the ...
    • The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian 

      Zhamaletdinova, Elmira (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-26)
      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. The corpus-based evidence reveals that the construction možno + DAT is gradually being replaced by možno + ...