Tag: morphology
Grammatical Meaning and Types of Grammaticalization
Vera Marovska The Paisiy Hilendarski University of Plovdiv Abstract The research paper focuses on the specific character of the grammatical features and some particular cases of grammaticalization in the contemporary Bulgarian language. The grammatical feature could be expressed by one morpheme; it could be a categorically new combination of grammatical features and a combination of […]
Read More → Grammatical Meaning and Types of GrammaticalizationOn the Question of the Grammaticalisation of Edin in the Field of Indefiniteness
Krasimira Aleksova Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski” Abstract This research article revisits the linguistic problem of whether edin, edna, edno, edni in the Bulgarian language are forms of a grammaticalised indefinite article which expresses the meaning of ‘specific indefiniteness’. In order to achieve the objectives of my research, I apply the principle of obligatoriness when […]
Read More → On the Question of the Grammaticalisation of Edin in the Field of IndefinitenessAnalysis 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
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 […]
Read More → 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