ИСТИНА

In Ossetic, like in other Iranian languages, the majority of verbal meanings are expressed by complex predicates consisting of a light verb and a nonverbal component. The NVC and the verb exhibit a great degree of unity, including sharing a single lexical stress. They can, however, be broken up by a 2nd position clitic cluster, while still having a single stress. In my talk I develop an LrFG analysis of this phenomenon, while also touching on other aspects of the syntax and prosody of Ossetic complex predictes.