Abstract
Our objective is to attempt to study the functioning of modalities, first in Structural semantic (Sémantique structurale), then in Semiotic of passions (Sémiotique
des passions), going through The Sens II (Du sens II). The study of modalities
is better situated not only in the first book of Greimas, but also in the writings
that come after, in the sense that they constitute a development and a refunding.
The more Greimas elaborates the theory of semiotic, the more he deepens and
improves the study of modalities. The evolution of semiotic and the evolution of
modalities go simultaneously.