Функции на старобългарското местоимение тъ в глаголна група и съответствията му в староанглийски
Functions of the Old Bulgarian Demonstrative Pronoun тъ in Verb Phrases and Its Equivalents in Old English

Author(s): Antoaneta Dzhelyova, Maria Anastasova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: demonstrative pronouns; deixis; anaphora; contrastive analysis
Summary/Abstract: The current paper examines the deictic and anaphoric usages of the Old Bulgarian demonstrative pronoun тъ in independent usage in the oblique cases. A logico-semantic model is applied in the analysis of the pronoun’s reference. It is complemented by the introduction of grammatical criteria for each linguistic level. The corpus under consideration has been excerpted from Gospel texts in Old Bulgarian, Greek, Latin and Old English and it present semantically accurate word-for-word translations. Three major occurrences of the Old Bulgarian demonstrative pronoun тъ in verbal phrases can be distinguished: stable deictic usage, unstable deictic usage and anaphoricpersonal usage.

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