The conditionals in the Tsudakhar-Sirkhya language (the Dargin languages)

The article is devoted to the study of adverbial conditional clauses in Tsudakhar, one of the dialects of the Tsudakhar-Sirkhya language (the Dargin branch of the Nakh-Dagestanian languages). The main objective of the study is to identify and describe all polypredicative conditional constructions, to form a group of such sentences in terms of the facts of the situations. It was also supposed to determine the links of the main and subordinate clauses in the polypredicative construction and to describe the conditional conjunctions. As a result of the study, the main ways of link in the clauses of complex sentence are determined — the form of the predicate in subordinate clause and conditional conjunctions. The predicate of such constructions is used in the form of conditional or intentional mood, and the words rahlew, eger, nagah are used as conjunctions that express «if» meaning. According to the real conditions and the way of clause forming, conditional sentences in the Tsudakhar dialect are divided into three groups: the constructions expressing a real condition, a counterfactual condition and a hypothetical condition. Conditional forms are used as a predicate of the subordinate clause in constructions with a real condition; the predicate of constructions with a counterfactual condition; is the predicate of the pre-conditional form, and the intentional form is used to connect the subordinate and main clauses of the hypothetical condition. The results obtained will be useful in composing a comparative-historical grammar of the Dargin languages.