EXPRESSIONS OF NECESSITY IN THE MODERN JAPANESE LANGUAGE (functional-semantic approach)
This paper is an attempt to analyze and define the meaning of necessity from the viewpoint of the functional-semantic approach. The latter is becoming topical nowadays, given a universal priority of anthropocentrical, communicative approach to linguistic research. The article focuses on constituents of the functional-semantic field of necessity including analysis of their characteristics and their systematization in accordance with the nuclear-periphery structure of the field.