БЪЛГАРСКИТЕ ПРИГЛАГОЛНИ И ПРИИМЕННИ ПРОНОМИНАЛНИ КЛИТИКИ – В СБЛЪСЪК ЗА НАДМОЩИЕ ИЛИ В СЪЖИТЕЛСТВО
BULGARIAN PRONOMINAL (VERBAL AND ADNOMINAL) CLITICS – IN A CLASH FOR PREDOMINANCE OR IN CO-EXISTENCE

Author(s): Krasimira Hadzhieva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Keywords: Bulgarian pronominal clitics; verbal clitics; possessive adnominal enclitics; external and internal possessors
Summary/Abstract: The group of Bulgarian pronominal clitics incorporates verb-adjacent pronominal clitics (the short accusative and dative forms of the personal pronouns and those of the reflexive personal pronouns) and adnominal pronominal enclitics expressing possessive relations. The clitic dative forms of personal pronouns and the clitic possessive forms overlap completely since the forms that function as possessive clitics are in fact redefined short dative forms of the personal pronouns. A process is at hand in which clitic pronouns that express an indirect object develop a new basic function – expressing a possessor. Many researchers share the opinion that only one type of dative clitics is present in Modern Bulgarian which may occur verb-adjacent as well as in adnominal position. This article claims that Bulgarian possessive enclitics form a separate group within the pool of Bulgarian pronominal clitics and their exploration needs to be emancipated from that of verbal clitics. Yet, there is a point of intersection between verb-adjacent dative clitics and possessive adnominal enclitics – the former can code possessive relations under certain pragmatic conditions by introducing external possessors (as regards possessive enclitics they convey possessive relations by introducing internal possessors).

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