Modal meanings expressed by the forms of the past tense indicative mood in the Yukaghir language

The object of the research is the category of linguistic modality, which expresses: 1) the attitude of the utterance to reality from the point of view of the speaker; 2) the speaker’s attitude to the content of the utterance; 3) the attitude of the subject of action to action. The article examines the system of the indicative mood as a means of expressing the attitude of the utterance to reality, conveying the correspondence of the content of the utterance to reality (reality). In the light of the category of modality, the form of tense is considered – aorist (present-past) indicative mood. The relevance of the study based on the materials of the Yukaghir language is determined by the fact that, along with a sufficiently built theoretical description of the category of modality in the works of domestic and foreign researchers, this category remains unexplored in the system of the Yukaghir language. The aim of the research wais to study the system of the indicative mood – as a means of expressing the attitude of the utterance to reality, conveying the correspondence of the content of the utterance to reality. Achieving this goal involves solving the following tasks: a) determining the category of modality in linguistics; b) determination of the range of meanings included in the sphere of modality in the Yukaghir language; c) consideration of the aorist system (present-past tense) of the indicative mood in the Yukaghir language. The theoretical postulate of the famous Russian linguist, academician V.V. Vinogradov, who, in order to identify modal meanings, proceeded from a broad interpretation of modality. The research was carried out on the basis of a functional-semantic analysis of the collected material, which is based on the theory of functional grammar by prof. A.V. Bondarko, within which various linguistic means – morphological, lexical, lexical-grammatical, syntactic – are combined on the basis of the commonality of their functions. The structural-semantic descriptive method was used to establish the structure of the sentence and the systematics of its elements, functionalsemantic analysis, the method of component analysis, as well as the constructive method in understanding the language as a dynamic system that ensures the generation of modal speech statements.

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