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Место перфекта в системе болгарского глагола
The Place of the Perfect in the System of Bulgarian Verb

Author(s): Ruselina Nikolova
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Slovanský ústav and Euroslavica
Keywords: perfect; Bulgarian temporal system; empathy; non-factive da-forms;Bulgarian;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the contemporary state resulting from the complex development of the Bulgarian perfect. Its place in the Bulgarian temporal system is presented with the help of a modified and expanded version of Reichenbach’s model. The connection between the use of the perfect and empathy is also touched upon. The Bulgarian perfect is a strongly expansive grammeme which, in addition to having a definite place in the Bulgarian temporal system, enters into some non-temporal oppositions with the aorist. It also has a place in the subsystem of the non-factive da-forms and provides the basis for the new evidential system, giving grammatical expression to the cognitive state of the speaker with respect to the source of information.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 245-258
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian