Between Lexicon, Syntax, Phonology, Semantics: the Interface Phenomena in the Ossetic Complex Predicates

Pavel Grashchenkov
Lomonosov Moscow State University / Institute of Oriental Studies RAS / Moscow Pedagogical State University / Pushkin State Russian Language Institute

Abstract. The paper deals with the organization and distributional properties of Ossetian complex predicates. Complex predicates in Ossetian code a part of the basic lexical meanings of verbal domain (to give / present, to ill, ...). Being composed of two lexical elements, they display at the same time the properties of the lexeme. The aims of the paper are twofold. On the one hand, it shows that complex predicates can be viewed as a result of composition of two syntactic structures, the nominal and the verbal one. On the other, complex predicates display properties of the lexeme in some contexts, and properties of the constituent in others.

Keywords: complex predicates, Iranian, syntax, morphology, phonology, compositionality

For citation: Grashchenkov P. Between lexicon, syntax, phonology, semantics: The interface phenomena in the Ossetic complex predicates. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2018. Vol. 1, iss. 1. Pp. 73–87. (In Rus.)