Modal words that remark certainty in turkmen language

Abstract

Modal words, which are not included in grammars of Turkish, are considered as an independent word class in grammars of Turkic languages. These words, which have been evaluated by traditional understanding in grammar books, are one of the lexical markers of the modality, which has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. In other words, they are words that give various meanings to a sentence of statement produced by the speaker. Modal words expressing certainty are structures that mark expressions in which the speaker expresses his/her point of view without hesitation and confidently, based on the knowledge he/she knows or believes. The more confident the speaker has in his/her knowledge, the more precise his/her expressions will be. In this study, the certainty within the scope of the epistemic modality will be explained within the framework of the modality and the modal words that express certainty in Turkmen language will be emphasized.

Keywords

• modal word
• certainty
• turkmen language
• modality
• semantics