Abstract
The article deals with the analysis of conditional complex sentences in the body of ancient Russian laws “Russkaya Pravda”. The aim of the study is to identify the basic principles of the grammatical structure and functioning of the constructions with the modal meaning of conditionality. The scientific novelty of the undertaken research lies in considering complex sentences with conditional clauses as the main text-forming structure in the organization of the Old Russian legal written monument. The results obtained showed that the text of “Russkaya Pravda” consistently uses syntactic constructions with the modal meaning of conditionality, which are implemented using complex sentences with the meaning of condition. The study identified three groups of constructions with the modal meaning of conditionality. The cause-and-effect relationship is clearly visible in these constructions: the first group is complex sentences with the meaning of condition, expressed using the conjunctions ‘аще’, ‘аже’, ‘оже’, ‘иже’; the second group is represented by sentences in which the meaning of conditionality is expressed using the connecting conjunction ‘a’; the third group is syntactic constructions with a conjunction ‘или’ meaning ‘if’, as well as sentences conveying conditional relations without using any conjunctions.
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