Methods of expressing the semantics of distributive diversity in the modern Ossetian language in comparison with Russian (based on the verbs of the Russian distributive-summary Actionsarts)

   The study of the ways to designate a universal sign of the action multiplicity in the modern Ossetian language, in comparison with Russian, indicates that multiplicativity, distributivity and iteration, as the main types of monotemporal and polytemporal repetition, are represented in the Ossetian language by several variants - different modes of action (Actionsarts). This fact confirms the universal nature of the content in the named types of repetition, reflecting the general patterns of the world perception by speakers of different languages. By analyzing the potential of the distributive repetition meanings in Ossetian, we reveal, along with a complete coincidence of universal aspectual-actional meanings in the languages being compared, unique idioethnic differences in the combinations of these meanings, in the degree of their actualization, obligation and frequency when denoting the same situation of extra-linguistic reality. Distributive repetitiveness is expressed in the Ossetian language by verbs of certain modes of action - distributive-total Actionsarts, characterized by the prefix фæ-, a part of the verbs of the multiplicative collective-multiact Actionsarts, characterized by the plural form of the name in the semantic part of the compound verb, a part of the multiplicative re-reflexive verbs with complex Actionsarts, the prefix formant of work- - ba-, total-qualitative Actionsarts, characterized by the prefix æр-, etc. The aspectual-actional meanings of these Actionsarts differ from their functionally translated Russian parallels in such nuances that reflect (with the unity of the world perception!) the interpretation of objective entities and the relationship between them characteristic only of the Ossetian language.

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