Наблюдения над прилагателните имена в „История славявобългарска“
Observations on the Adjectives in Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya

Summary/Abstract: The Church-Slavonic grammatical opposition of definiteness between the long and the short forms of adjectives is completely lost in the language of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya in the locus of opposition – the attributive use – due to the expansion of the marked long forms. The opposition is preserved in the subject complement and object complement positions. There is also a strong opposite Modern Bulgarian trend to use short-form adjectives in contexts typical of long-form adjectives. The results of several processes that accompanied the trend towards analytism in the Middle Bulgarian period are also observed: a generalised (accusative) form used after prepositions; a frequent plural ending -ie in the place of Old Bulgarian ы and ѧ; a generalised plural masculine, feminine and neuter ending -i; a regular substitution of -ый (-ий) by -и in mascu-line singular adjectives; an accusative feminine ending -ою instead of the Church-Slavonic -ую – all of them prevailing significantly in terms of frequency. The expansion of the long form in the predicative position is rare and is virtually absent from the original Second Preface. The analysis confirms Lyubomir Andreychin’s view that the Modern Bulgarian “foundations” of Paisius’ language are clearly visible under the “top layer” of Church Slavonic forms.

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