The article analyses Old Russian language in the framework of the interpretation of possibility modality as a semantic category. The author justifies the extension of possibility representatives list by non-specialized lexemes that reveal strong modality potential.
The article considers the interaction between modality and affective evaluation on the basis of hagiography of the ХIV—ХV centuries in the framework of medieval concept of the moral meaning of the beautiful.
The article analyses the textual function of tolerance zones of particular modal meanings in Anna Akhmatova's poetry. The author pays special attention to the zones involved in the development of the author's verbal image, determines the explications of the zones describes and their interrelations.
The article deals with the results of an experiment on modelling the reader's perception of infinitive writing modal semantics. The author argues
that the reader's interpretation of infinitive writing bases on connotation semantics of a poetic text rather than on the 'grammar of poetry'.