ЛЕКСИКАЛНИ, ГРАМАТИЧНИ И СИНТАКТИЧНИ СРЕДСТВА ЗА ИЗРАЗЯВАНЕ НА ПРЕДПОЛОЖЕНИЕ В БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ЕЗИК
LEXICAL, GRAMMATICAL AND SYNTACTIC MEANS FOR EXPRESSING PRESUMPTION IN BULGARIAN

Author(s): Ekaterina Tarpomanova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Keywords: presumption; presumptive; language levels
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses three means of expressing presumption in Bulgarian: lexical (words whose lexical semantics expresses presumption), grammatical (verbal forms of the so-called presumptive), and syntactic (constructions with a presumptive meaning). Bulgarian is one of the few Indo-European languages with a (partial) grammaticalisation of presumptive forms, but they remain peripheral for the language system. This fact can be explained with the domination of the lexical means, which have less usage restrictions.

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