• 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 + ...