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024 7 _a10.1515/9783110198898
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783110198898
035 _a(DE-B1597)34637
035 _a(OCoLC)979583677
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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072 7 _aLAN009000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMladenova, Olga M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDefiniteness in Bulgarian :
_bModelling the Processes of Language Change /
_cOlga M. Mladenova.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter Mouton,
_c[2008]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (472 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aTrends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
_x1861-4302 ;
_v182
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_t1. Introduction --
_t2. Definiteness: expression and content --
_t3. The diachronic model of definiteness --
_t4. Language variation and textology --
_t5. Definiteness in the dialects --
_t6. Bulgarian definiteness in a Balkan --
_tcontext --
_t7. Concluding remarks --
_t8. Maps --
_t9. Note on language data treatment --
_tBackmatter
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aIn its evolution from a synthetic to an analytic language, Bulgarian acquired a grammaticalized category of definiteness. The book presents the first attempt to explore in detail how this happened by comparing the earliest Modern Bulgarian texts with contemporary dialect and standard Bulgarian data. The basic units of analysis are the various types of nominal structures headed by nouns or pronouns. The analysis requires the strict terminological disentanglement of form from content and the adoption of a default inheritance model of definiteness that allow the exhaustive classification and tagging of nominal structures encountered in the texts. Tagging makes it possible to apply quantitative analysis to nominal structure and to assess the types available in the early texts from a current native-speaker perspective. Based on an S-curve model of language change, the study establishes that overt markers of definiteness were first made available to identifiability-based definites, then to inclusiveness-based definites, quantitative generics and unique referents. The overt markers of indefiniteness followed suit, separating indefinites from non-specifics and typifying generics. This progression of definiteness was directed by variables such as person, animacy, gender, number and noun-class, and started in contexts in which definiteness closely interacted with possessivity. Such an analysis leads to the realization that the two-dimensional S-curve model does not account for all language change and that there is a need for a three-dimensional model. It also demonstrates that, contrary to previous assumptions, there is continuity between the early Slavic marker of definiteness (long-form adjectives) and the Modern Bulgarian article. This discovery, in conjunction with geolinguistic arguments, sheds new light on the role that relations inside the Balkan Sprachbund played in the grammaticalization of Bulgarian definiteness.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
650 0 _aBulgarian language
_xDefiniteness.
650 0 _aBulgarian language
_xDialects.
650 0 _aBulgarian language
_xHistory.
650 4 _aBulgarisch /Sprache.
650 4 _aSprachkontakt.
650 4 _aSprachwandel.
650 7 _aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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653 _aBulgarian /language.
653 _alanguage change.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198898
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110198898
856 4 2 _3Cover
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