Forms of davay/davayte in Russian spontaneous speech («context of consent»)

The article reviews the functioning of the verb forms davay/d avayte in Russian oral spontaneous speech. In natural communication, these forms often “break away” from the original verbal paradigm, go through the process of grammaticalization and partly resemantization, and acquire the status of particles or interjections. The specific subject of description i s the uncodified use of the studied forms of davay/davayte in the role of “ consent contexts”: davay v sem’ ? # davay v sem’ sem’. The article based on the material of the corpus of everyday Rus sian speech "One speaker’s day" describes the structural features of the studied units and their correlation with the social characteristics of speakers.