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Флективно описание на съставни наименования в българския език (изследване на двусъставните географски названия)
Inflectional Description of Bulgarian Multiword Expressions: An Analysis of Two-Component Geographical Names

Author(s): Svetlozara Leseva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: inflection types; geographical names; multiword expressions; Bulgarian

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the grammatical and semantic characteristics of two-component compound proper names in Bulgarian, with a particular focus on geographical names, aiming to define their inflectional types and integrate them into the respective dictionary entries. The study is based on lexical units automatically extracted from internet sources, including structured resources such as Wikipedia. These units were manually filtered and categorised according to the type of referent, e.g. town, village, mountain, spring, etc. As a result, the initial dataset of 4,000 candidates was reduced to approximately 2,600 entries. The selected names were automatically POS-tagged and analysed in terms of their syntactic structure, lexical and grammatical categories, inflectional properties, defectivity, etc. These features collectively determine the inflectional type of each named entity. The inflectional types enable both the generation of inflected forms and their recognition in free text.

  • Issue Year: 72/2025
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 120-132
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian
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