MEANS OF EXPRESSING EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The article is devoted to the analysis of nomenclature means expressing epistemic modality in English language. At functional-semantic level, semantics assessment reflected values units morphological, lexical, and syntactic levels language, capable performing following semantic functions at level utterance: degree confidence speaker, validity judgment, subjectivity, unreality. Since combined common function all evaluation reflect speaker’s incomplete commitment based on his insufficient guarantees, justification act as basic evaluation. first reflects that speaker accepts, second — guarantees. Depending quality can be high, medium, low, or actually absent indicator. Validity related knowledge about situation and, particular, directly depends source information situation. Modal morphological indicators include necessity possibility invalidity proposition from point view speaker. In evaluative statements, are reinterpreted certainty uncertainty, respectively; is, modal component value such preserved, but communicative pragmatic their comes fore, reflecting