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По въпроса за самостойния статут на партиципиалните форми
On the Independent Status of Participles

Author(s): Desislava Dimitrova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: participles; verbs; adjectives; morphemic structure; independent lexical classes

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents an account of participles as an independent class of lexemes on the basis of their morphemic structure. The participial morphemes -л and -н/-т in the structure of the so-called past perfect active and past passive participles are treated as primary expressors of resultative and passive semantics. These morphemes are not only word-forming segments but also indicators of grammatical semantics. This is an important argument for the exclusion of participles both from the verbal and from the adjectival system as proposed by Kutsarov (Куцаров/Kutsarov 2012). In addition, I present models for the morphemic segmentation of adjectives, verbs and participles.

  • Issue Year: 70/2023
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 344-353
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian