GRAMMATICALIZATION OF SEMANTICS OF ‘THE SPEAKER’S ATTITUDE TO THE SITUATION’ IN THE TUVAN LANGUAGE
The article gives a brief overview of the grammatical syntactic constructions of the Tuvan grammar system expressing the speaker`s attitude to the situation. In the Tuvan language, which does not have special morphological and lexical means of expressing evidence, this function uses some grammatical, lexical and syntactic structures formed, on the one hand, by the verb болур ‘to be’ and the particles formed from it; on the other hand, analytical constructions with the auxiliary verb апаар ‘become’. It is established that these verbs describe events that are evaluated differently by the speaker: both in terms of reliability and in terms of low probability. The considered grammaticalized constructions arose on the basis of constructions of evaluative semantics. Their meanings point to the source of information of the speaker about the situation he is reporting and relate to the sphere of evidentiality.