Epistemic modality in old uighur Turkish: The case of Aç Pars story

The modality category discussed in linguistic studies deals with the way in which the attitudes and knowledge of the speech reflect the languages. Modality is marked in a statement morphological, lexical, syntactici discursive etc. The aim of this study is to reveal the use of epistemic modality, which is one of the subcategories of modality, which shows the knowledge and belief of the proposition about the value of reality, in the story of Aç Pars which is one of the text of Old Uighur Turkish. In this study the ways in which the epistemic modality is marked in the text will be determined and the reality of these markers will be shown on the scale. However, it will be tried to reveal that the markers we have identified have a different function than the functions described in the grammar books. Key Words Kiplik, Epistemic modality, Epistemic modal markers, Old Uighur Turkish, "Aç Pars" Story