ON THE GENERAL APPROACHES TO THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF MODALITY

Abstract

Modality is one of the highly debated categories in linguistics. In spite of the fact that modality has been studied by the linguists for a long time, since the middle of the last century, it has a rich research potential, especially from the perspective of the classification problem as it gives a new set of problems for further analysis and description. There are a lot of contradictions in the classification related to finding a precise distinction between the objective and subjective modality and our purpose is give a new interpretation to both notions within the frame of our article.