Modalità e dintorni in siciliano: status quaestionis e prospettive di ricerca

Abstract

The paper proposes a review of studies on modality and modal encoding in Sicilian that takes into account both traditional dialectological works and those that have been concerned with investigating, in an in-depth and theoretically oriented manner, some specific areas of the modal domain. A collection of essays dedicated to the “surroundings” of modality, within which the peripheries of the category are explored, is also introduced here. In the surroundings of modality, its contiguity with other notional domains and its interactions with a variety of pragmatic domains are investigated by considering the studies of recent decades that have devoted increasing attention to these topics.