TO THE QUESTION OF MODAL INDICATORS OF EVIDENTIAL VALUES IN THE INGUSH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article examines the problem of the relationship between such linguistic concepts as epistemic modality and evidentiality. The work pays great attention to the question of the degree of knowledge of these categories in natural languages. The methods of transmission of the meanings of epistemic modality and evidentiality are analyzed, and the cases of intersection of the meanings of modality and evidentiality in the Ingush language are also investigated. The connection between the categories of evidentiality and modality can be traced not only in the semantic loads that they carry, but also in the sometimes identical ways of realizing the meanings inherent in the categories of modality and evidentiality. Certain meanings within the semantic zone of evidentiality reveal a modal nature, and some modal indicators carry evidential meanings. The article describes evidential strategies for using modal indicators and modal strategies for using evidential indicators.