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Negative forms of dubitative

Author(s): Diana Androva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: evidentiality; dubitative; verb category
Summary/Abstract: This study discusses the negative dubitative forms in first person and second person of the Active voice of the Future tense and Future in the past tense in the Bulgarian language. The first purpose of this study is to verify the existence of a fourth formative model for expressing negative dubitative semantics. The second purpose is to examine the uses of the four forms and find out which form is most commonly used to express a negative dubitative semantics.

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