АПОЗИТИВНИ КОНСТРУКЦИИ С АМБИВАЛЕНТЕН СИНТАКТИЧЕН СТАТУС
APPOSITIONAL CONSTRUCTIONS WITH AN AMBIVALENT SYNTACTIC STATUS

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes syntactic formations that have not yet received any attention, especially in the studies on Bulgarian grammar. These constructions include varieties of the appositional construction, typical mostly to written language. They are traditionally defined as parenthetical appositives, as detached or non-detached appositives, as units close to the appositive. What brings the examples illustrating this syntactic phenomenon together as elements of one type, is that in each of them, there is a binary nominative structure, and its components are referentially identical. One of the components (the head word) is a noun that is either part of the less frequently used lexis, or a foreign language lexical unit, or an alternative name for the other noun. The other component (the appositive) is separated by punctuation (most often through the use of the punctuation mark “round brackets”) that either contains a noun from the commonly used lexis, or is a transliterated variant, or is a shortened variant (abbreviation) of the full name in the first component.

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