Посесивност и граматикализация в конструкциите с външен притежател в българския език
Possessiveness and Grammaticalization in Constructions with an External Possessor in the Bulgarian Language

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I discuss some prominent features of the Bulgarian external possessors and I argue that the construction is highly grammaticalized because of the NP-internal possessive clitics. I also propose two alternative mechanisms to derive the pronominal external possessor as a sentential constituent on the basis of the semantic properties of the predicate and the functions of the possessive clitic as signaling a benefactive/malefactive dative or a purely possessive function. Implicit in the argumentation is the comparison with the European languages where this construction is considerably more limited in scope and functions.

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