The semantics of Belarusian modal particles and ways of expressing it in English
The paper focuses on the study of the semantics of modal-volitional particles in the Belarusian language and the means of its preservation in English. We determine particles in the Belarusian language as incomplete words that express additional semantic, modal-volitional, emotional or expressive shades of the meanings of linguistic units - words, phrases or sentences, that take part in the expression of certain morphological categories. The fundamental difference between a particle in Belarusian and English is that a particle in Belarusian modifies the meaning of a word, i.e. adds an emotional tone to it, while in English a particle can completely change the meaning of a word, for example, in phrasal verbs that consist of a verb and a particle. The article describes the semantics of these particles based on the analysis of journalistic style statements extracted from the general corpus of the Belarusian language, containing modal-volitional particles, and attempts to determine the ways of expressing individual modal meanings into English.