Author: Maria Todorova

Indirect Li-Questions in the Bulgarian Language

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Marina Dzhonova Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Abstract The article treats the cases in spoken Bulgarian language where the speaker uses the yes/no questions as indirect directives. In terms of Brown and Levinson (1990) those speech acts are an off record politeness strategy. The pragmatic factors that determine the use of these indirect speech acts […]

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Analysis of the Morphological Category ‘Indefiniteness/Definiteness’ in the Bulgarian Language System in Terms of Emergence, Development, Sustainability and Specificity of the Morphological Indicator for Determination

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Iliyana G. Garavalova Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The study reviews the reasons why a well established morphological category of ‘indefiniteness / definiteness’ emerged, developеd and remained intact in the Bulgarian language unlike all other Slavic languages that brings it closer from typological point of view to Balkan and West European […]

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