Open AccessGrammar category of modality in Spanish: cognitive bases
Author(s) -
C. Ursul
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iberoamerikanskie tetradi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-5219
pISSN - 2409-3416
DOI - 10.46272/2409-3416-2019-1-75-79
Subject(s) - linguistics , cognitive grammar , grammar , modality (human–computer interaction) , schematic , computer science , cognition , representation (politics) , field (mathematics) , natural language processing , psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , neuroscience , electronic engineering , politics , law , political science , pure mathematics , engineering
The article deals with the grammar category of modality in the structure of modern Spanish. The author aims to analyze the structural organization of the grammar category of modality in the Spanish language and to reveal its cognitive bases in order to form a schematic representation of this category, which in the future will allow, first of all, to solve the problem of the number of moods in modern Spanish, and also to avoid some mistakes when translating sentences from Russian into Spanish, and from Spanish into Russian as well. The usage of a functionalsemantic approach helps to analyze in details the structure of the grammar category of modality in the language and to educe its conceptual bases. Within a framework of the study the author introduces the term “field of time”. The “field of time” refers to the mentality, while the grammar category of time - to a language. The correlation of these terms facilitates to visualize the connection of the way of thinking with a language and to separate three different moods in the Spanish language, that are el Indicativo, el Subjuntivo, el Imperativo.