Номинализацията на предиката в сръбския и българския книжовен език от края на XIX и началото на XX век
Nominalization of the predicate in Serbian and Bulgarian languages at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century

Author(s): Martin Stefanov
Contributor(s): Simeon Stefanov (Editor)
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, South Slavic Languages, Philology, Translation Studies
ISSN: 2815-3731
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Serbian language; Bulgarian language; literary norm; functional stylistics; nominalization
Summary/Abstract: This study presents the peculiarities of the processes of nominalization of the predicate in Serbian and Bulgarian languages at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century. In the book, these processes are considered as a mechanism for the realization of the predicate as nominalized constructions (NC) and periphrastic predicates (PP). The main object of scientific interest is the structural-semantic features, functional capabilities, and stylistic value of the above-mentioned linguistic structures, which occupy an important place in modern literary languages. This fact predetermines the location of the study in the period between the two centuries, when modern literary norms were formed – especially in the field of syntax.The presented observations testify to the wide spread of the so-called "nominal style" in the specialized spheres of Serbian and Bulgarian literary languages from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Their functional-semantic and pragmatic potential makes them necessary tools for verbalization of more abstract thinking, characterized by the realization of complicated relations within and outside the text. From a formal-structural point of view, historically, these linguistic structures are not new, as evidenced by the fact that the degree of development of the NC and PP systems in both languages suggests the existence of a previous development. During the period under review, however, they became important means of expression in view of the active processes of functional-stylistic delamination in the two literary norms.

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