Definiteness in Bulgarian : Modelling the Processes of Language Change.

Definiteness in Bulgarian : Modelling the Processes of Language Change.

In its evolution from a synthetic to an analytic language, Bulgarian acquired a grammaticalized category of definiteness. The book presents the first attempt to explore in detail how this happened by comparing the earliest Modern Bulgarian texts with contemporary dialect and standard Bulgarian data....

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Main Author: Mladenova, Olga M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Series:Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 182.
Subjects:
Bulgarian language > Definiteness.
Bulgarian language > History.
Bulgarian language > Dialects.
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian language > Definiteness
Bulgarian language > Dialects
History
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Summary:In its evolution from a synthetic to an analytic language, Bulgarian acquired a grammaticalized category of definiteness. The book presents the first attempt to explore in detail how this happened by comparing the earliest Modern Bulgarian texts with contemporary dialect and standard Bulgarian data. The basic units of analysis are the various types of nominal structures headed by nouns or pronouns. The analysis requires the strict terminological disentanglement of form from content and the adoption of a default inheritance model of definiteness that allow the exhaustive classification and tagg.
Physical Description:1 online resource (484 pages)
ISBN:9783110198898
3110198894
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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