Complexitatea unei simple prepoziţii – bg. Na (I)
Complexity of a simple preposition – bg. Na (I)
Author(s): Mariana Mangiulea JatopSubject(s): Morphology, Semantics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Contemporary Bulgarian language; analytical language; morphology; grammatical case; preposition; grammatical instrument; the semantics of the prepositions;
Summary/Abstract: There are more than fifty prepositions in Contemporary Bulgarian language, among which the preposition на stands out as the most used, containing the most numerous and abstract meanings (19 significances and 29 usages). Inherited from the Old Bulgarian, it restrained its use as a preposition regarding the direction, the object and the purpose of the action and, in exchange, it developed grammatical functions in the context of Bulgarian’s evolution from synthetism to analythism (12th-15th century). In the paper we present this transformation of preposition на into a grammatical instrument, in order to express in contemporary Bulgarian the old relationships of dative, genitive, accusative cases (на+ casus generalis), along with its rich semantics as a preposition (relationships of space, time, purpose, quantity, instrumental and modal meanings).
Journal: Romanoslavica
- Issue Year: XLVI/2010
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 165-170
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Romanian