On the syntagmatic typology of Modern Bulgarian
On the syntagmatic typology of Modern Bulgarian

Summary/Abstract: The paper frames the concept of syntagmatic typology based on the interaction among various syntagmatic mechanisms, such as word order, congruence, formal cases, lexical meaning, animacy, formal class markers, prosody, definiteness, pronominal reduplication of the object and extralinguistic knowledge. On these grounds the syntagmatic type of congruence Indo-European languages in Europe is abstracted. Modern Bulgarian is classified as a model representative of its case-less subtype because of the extraordinary role congruence plays in the preservation of its relatively free word order, specialized to express the theme-rheme structure of the sentence, after a substantial reduction of its case system.

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