Speech acts and modality of multiple compound-complex sentences

Abstract

The paper deals with the peculiarities of means
of expressing modality in English multiple compound-complex
sentences. The author maintains that to treat the modality of
the utterance as real or unreal it is necessary to take into
consideration the illocutionary function of the utterance. The
authors investigate the process of modalization of the indicatives
in the Future tenses, their characteristics depending on
the type of the multiple compound-complex sentence and the
conditions of speech acts formation.