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What are modals?

What are modals? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of modal
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To put double modals in past tense, only the first modal is changed as in I could ought to.
Many English modals have cognates in other Germanic languages, albeit with different meanings in some cases.
How are modals treated by formal logic and by the theory of induction?
Interestingly, the modal verb bì appears below the scope of negation and thus patterns with circumstantial modals syntactically.
In their uses as modals they govern a bare infinitive, and are usually restricted to questions and negative sentences.
In Section 3.1, we recalled the syntax of epistemic and deontic modals, as well as the syntax of modals when they were used lexically.

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