The article dwells on the structural peculiarities and origin of modal words in modern Tajik language. The author emphasizes that modal words in modern Tajik language are considered as a special lexico-grammatical category with their morphological, syntactic, semantic and stylistic features, their origin. Their development is closely related with the loss of their initial lexical meaning and acquiring of various modal shades in the course of time. It is underlined that nearly all modal words of the Tajik language have diverse structural form, peculiar origin and formation as a special lexico-grammatical category.
modality, special lexico-grammatical category, structural peculiarities, origin of modal words, various shades of meanings, parts of speech
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