The Old Bulgarian Demonstrative Pronoun сь as a Subordinate Element in the Verb Group and its Equivalents in Old English Cover Image

Старобългарското показателно местоимение сь като подчинителен компонент в глаголна група и съответствията му в староанглийски
The Old Bulgarian Demonstrative Pronoun сь as a Subordinate Element in the Verb Group and its Equivalents in Old English

Author(s): Antoaneta Dzhelyova, Maria Anastasova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: pronouns; demonstrative pronouns; anaphora, deixis; Old Bulgarian; Old English

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a model for the analysis of pronouns based on two types of characterisations – semantic-grammatical and communicative-pragmatic ones. Each of them consists of a set of categorial and relational features. The semantic-grammatical and communicative-pragmatic characterisations determine the types of deixis expressed by pronouns. The model is tested on the demonstrative pronoun сь used as a subordinate element in the verb group. Excerpted material from Old Bulgarian Gospel texts is studied in comparison with Old English, Greek and Latin texts.

  • Issue Year: 70/2023
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 252-266
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian