On a special type of necessity modality: The German verb sollen viewed from parallel corpora

The article discusses the thesis that German verb sollen expresses a special type of modality occupies an intermediate position between necessity and possibility, i.e. weak ontological necessity. expressed by can be characterized as follows: points to correlation state aff airs P with certain logic development events, not only possible, but salient in some respect. This is diff erence this “classical” necessity, which assumes corresponds possible world. study was conducted on material German-Russian parallel subcorpus Russian National Corpus, using “monofocal” method contrastive analysis, according way translating analyzed linguistic unit into another language used tool for its semantic analysis.