Pseudo-conditional patterns in Altai language
The paper aims to examine the main types of pseudo-conditional polypredicative patterns in the Altai language that have not been the focus of a special study so far. The material for the study was selected from fiction by continuous sampling. Further data processing was performed using the following methods: descriptive analysis, structural modeling and questionnaire. As a result, it was found that pseudo-conditional constructions in the Altai language, as in other languages, are built in accordance with the pattern of conditional structures. However, despite the formal similarity of conditional and pseudo-conditional patterns, they differ in some ways, primarily by the modality of the dependent clause. Conditional patterns are characterized by the unreal modality of the dependent predicative unit while pseudo-conditional patterns are characterized by the real modality. Pseudo-conditional patterns lack conditional semantics, they convey other types of relationships between events. It was discovered that pseudo-conditional relations occur in sentences where the modus part is eliminated and the relationship between their content plan and the expression plan is asymmetric. Five main types of pseudo-conditional constructions were identified: conditional-temporal, iterative, conditional-causal, explanatory, comparative.