Категорията лице на глагола и предикативното съгласуване в съвременния български език
The Verbal Category of Person and the Agreement of the Predicate in Modem Bulgarian

Summary/Abstract: The paper investigates some syntactic properties of person agreement in Bulgarian within the framework of the current developments of the generative theory of language. The structural approach that agreement is an instantiation of the more general specifier-head relationship is applied and is argued to have implications for Bulgarian which can explain the ways in which person morphology interacts with various syntactic principles, both universal and language-specific. It is shown that the projection which hosts agreement features is the highest functional projection in the clause and that Verb movement is operative for checking of person/number features. Null subjects are also examined and are shown to be selected, depending on whether they are associated with a specific, a (quasi)-universal or a (quasi)-existential interpretation. The agreement relation between arbitrary or expletive null specifiers and the head of the agreement projection is achieved through a proposed co-indexation mechanism under a matching feature specification of the two category types.

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