Bulgarian Evidential Forms and Wierzbicka’s NSM
Bulgarian Evidential Forms and Wierzbicka’s NSM
Author(s): Iliana Genew-Puhalewa, Gergana PopovaSubject(s): Language studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Northern Kresy Polish; origins; territorial and social differentiation; state of research
Summary/Abstract: Our focus in this paper is on the semantics of a particular grammatical category of Bulgarian, namely evidentiality. Our starting point is the account of evidentiality in Macedonian and Bulgarian in Wierzbicka (in Semantics: Primes and Universals. Oxford: 1996). We elaborate and expand on this proposal by suggesting semantic formulae for the renarrative, dubitative, inferential, and mirative forms, incorporating Wierzbicka’s universal semantic primitives know and think. Our aim is to provide a stepping stone towards precise intra- and inter-linguistic comparisons.
Journal: Slavia Meridionalis
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 23
- Page Range: 1-16
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English