Rada Vasileva St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Abstract The study investigates the problem of distinguishing between the conventional predicative and the optative subject complement in Bulgarian language. Using the help of valency theory, the hierarchical dependencies between the sentence’s elements are analyzed. Based on this, the common characteristics and the […]

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Eleonora Yovkova-Shii University of Toyama, Japan Abstract This paper deals with the problem of the subject and its realization in the information structure of the Bulgarian simple declarative sentences in the written language. The main problems which this paper will make attempt to investigate, are how the pragmatic roles topic and focus are mapped on […]

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