Ossetian aspectual-actional equivalents of Russian mode of action verbs (Aktionsarts) with the value of distribution, dissemination, summation

   The meanings of distributive repetition as one of the universal semantic types of repetition are represented in modern Russian by the verbs of distributive, cumulative, total, and excessive multiplicity modes of action (Aktionsarts), consistently characterized by different prefixes that introduce their own special actional shades. The study of Ossetian functional-translational correspondences to Russian verbs of the listed modes of action (Aktionsarts) reveals that the meanings of distributive repetitiveness of action are expressed in the modern Ossetian language by a group of multiplicative verbs, which include, along with the meaning of multiplicativity, the elements of distributive meanings. This is a certain part of repeated-reflexive Aktionsart multiplicative verbs, a part of the collective-multiact Aktionsart verbs, the verbs of the total-qualitative Aktionsarts, and also a huge layer of prefixed formations with fæ-, which, in combination with lexical, grammatical, and syntactic means, convey all actional nuances of the distributive nature of the action. It is this part of the Ossetian prefixed verbs that acts, first of all, as an equivalent of the meanings of summation, dispersion, distribution, cumulativeness, effective totivity, excessive multiplicity, and totality, represented in the modern Russian language by the corresponding Aktionsarts. With a complete coincidence of universal aspectual-actional meanings, unique differences are revealed in the degree of obligation and frequency of expressing categorical meanings, as well as in the arrangement of idioethnic accents, reflecting mental characteristics of the linguistic picture of the world.

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