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Approaches to the study of the category of modality in modern English

Isaeva Aygun Khanoglan  (PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Baku Slavic University)

The article deals with a small description of the category of modality in English. In the ancient Germanic languages, there was a small, but very important due to its frequent use, a group of present verbs. The verbs of this group are of particular interest, since it is to them that modal verbs ascend - the main means of expressing internal modality. In fact, this is a group of strong verbs that in the preliterate period lost some forms, but retained and acquired others, changing their lexical and grammatical meaning. Modality is a grammatical and semantic category that expresses the various connections between expression and reality. Modality is a linguistic universal that belongs to the main categories of natural language. The group of modal verbs includes a small number of verbs that stand out among all verbs in a number of characteristic features in meaning, use and grammatical forms. These verbs do not have any proper verb grammatical category (type, temporal attribution, voice); they can only have forms of mood and time, which are indicators of the predicate. Due to this, and also due to their lack of non-predicative forms (infinitive, gerund, participles), modal verbs are on the periphery of the verbal system of the English language.

Keywords:language, linguistics, modality, verb, objective, subjective, grammatical, lexical.
 

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Citation link:
Isaeva A. K. Approaches to the study of the category of modality in modern English // Современная наука: актуальные проблемы теории и практики. Серия: ГУМАНИТАРНЫЕ НАУКИ. -2022. -№04. -С. 114-118 DOI 10.37882/2223-2982.2022.04.14
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