The Prepositionalisation as a Word-forming Method in the Old Bulgarian Language

Tatyana Ilieva
Cyrillo-Меthodian Research Centre, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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The article studies, from the diachronic aspect of the development of the Bulgarian language, the process of prepositionalization as a case of transposition. The formation of the secondary prepositions is tracked on the basis of the transition of the full words to the function words. The process of prepositionalization is analyzed in each particular case. The place of the newly formed prepositional units in the language system is determined in terms of their relations with other classes of words

Keywords: Bulgarian historical lexicology, Old-Bulgarian Language, morphologicalsyntactic word-formation