THE NECESSITIVE IMPERSONAL REIK(Ė)TI ‘NEED’: THE RISE OF MODAL MEANING
THE NECESSITIVE IMPERSONAL REIK(Ė)TI ‘NEED’: THE RISE OF MODAL MEANING

Summary/Abstract: Modality, one of the widely discussed issues in linguistics, has generally been considered as a semantic category. There are two major approaches to the definition of modality: it is defined either in terms of ‘speaker attitudes’, ‘subjectivity’ (Palmer 1990, 2001; Traugott 1989, 2006) or in terms of ‘factuality’, ‘actuality’, ‘reality’ (Narrog 2005, 2012). Since modality is a heterogeneous category, it comprises several subcategories or types. Typically, scholars distinguish either two (for example, epistemic and deontic (Lyons 1977), epistemic and root (Coates 1983)) or three types of modality (epistemic, deontic and dynamic) (Palmer 1990).

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