Similative construction with the verb kεnən ‘do’ in Ossetic
Julia Sinitsyna
Lomonosov Moscow State University / Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
Abstract: The study deals with one similative construction [N-gen ptcp.pst kεnən] in the Iron Ossetic (<Iranian<Indo-European): birεg-ə xεrd kεn-ə (wolf-gen eat.ptcp.pst do‑prs.3sg) ‘[he/she] eats like a wolf.’ This construction is compared with constructions with special equative-similative markers ‑au [equ] and xwəžεn ‘like’. The genitive group [N-gen ptcp.pst] is considered in comparison with nominalizations with a genitive marked subject and possessive noun phrases. Moreover, I discuss the place of the strategy of expressing a similative meaning using the verb ‘do’ in the typological classification of comparative constructions.
Keywords: comparative constructions, simulative constructions, Ossetic
For citation: Sinitsyna J. Similative construction with the verb kεnən ‘do’ in Ossetic. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2025. Vol. 8, iss. 1. Pp. 99–111. (In Rus.) doi:10.37632/PI.2025.69.28.005
