КОНТЕКСТНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ИРРЕАЛЬНОЙ МОДАЛЬНОСТИ В РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ

Abstract

The paper attempts to build a system of functions of the Russian subjunctive mood and irreal comparison constructions. The purpose of the article is to analyze the multi - level text modality (from an application of a modality-based semantic grammar to an aesthetic). The distinction between objective and subjective modality allows to identify their contextual features. There wasn’t an irreal modality in old Russian texts. But number of irreal signs had been rising since the aesthetic, art role of written language enhanced. Meanwhile the objective unreal modality of fairy tales was created by the subjunctive mood in Russian folklore. The unreal modality had reached its apotheosis in modern style fin de siècle. The irreal comparison constructions also were widespread, especially that came from the future tense form. But there were also Russian rare "imperfect" relicts. Subsequently, grammar constructions typical of art Nouveau, similar to the European "future in the past", creating an alternate reality, replaced by the imperative mood second person, with the illocutionary act of calling for change to the existing reality in the early avant-garde and by the imperative mood third-person with a particle of "pust’" in the mid-twentieth century, with the word "puskay", that gave its peculiar connotation and that was used not only as a formative particle, but also as a modal particle, resonant with a non-equivalent particle «avos’».