The grammatical semantics of the mononuclear debitive (infinitive) sentences (based on the material of the plays written by A. Ostrovskiy)

Abstract

The grammatical semantics of the debitive sentences, which represent a special class of the mononuclear
sentences of the verbal formation with the main part, the independent infinitive, is being characterized in the
present article basing on the material of plays written by A. Ostrovskiy.
The main semantics of the sentences of the given type consists in the expressing of the meaning of necessity
which is complicated by the variant modal meanings in the concrete speech acts. The peculiarity of the mononuclear
debitive sentences consists in fact that the meaning of obligation or necessity does not have the explicit
means of the expression but is expressed on the basis of the implicit nomination. The mononuclear debitive sentences
in the plays written by A. Ostrovskiy represent the various invariants of the realization of the modal meaning
of necessity united in the three main types: the situational-providential necessity; the set necessity and the expedient
necessity.