I Didn’t Hear You: An Attempt at Explaining a Verb’s Colloquial Usage Through the Prism of Etymology Cover Image

Не те чух: опит за обяснение на една глаголна употреба в разговорния български език през погледа върху етимологията
I Didn’t Hear You: An Attempt at Explaining a Verb’s Colloquial Usage Through the Prism of Etymology

Author(s): Simeon Stefanov
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Lexis, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Indo-European languages; Slavic languages; etymology; verb; hear; Semantic universality

Summary/Abstract: The text attempts to explain the use of a verb in Bulgarian colloquial speech by exam-ining the etymology of the corresponding common Slavic verb. On the basis of the registered forms in Slavic and the formal semantic parallels in more distant Indo-European languages, as well as what is known in science regarding the possible semantic evolution of the verbs for sense perception, an assumption is made as to what the considered meaning is due to.

  • Issue Year: 71/2024
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 458-467
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian
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