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 […]

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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 […]

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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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