The Language of the Novel “Drunk Father, Murderer of his Children” Written by Iliya R. Bluskov Cover Image

Езикът на повестта „Пиян баща, убиец на децата си” от Илия Р. Блъсков
The Language of the Novel “Drunk Father, Murderer of his Children” Written by Iliya R. Bluskov

Author(s): Ivo Bratanov
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, History of ideas, Bulgarian Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Theory of Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: history of modern Standard Bulgarian; Iliya R. Bluskov; novel; graphic; spelling; phonetic; morphological and syntactic traits; language-spelling model; dialect; literary tradition.

Summary/Abstract: The article is a detailed account of the language used in “Drunk Father, Murderer of His Children”, a novel written by the Bulgarian Revival writer Iliya R. Bluskov and published in 1879–1880. The article tackles major graphic, spelling, phonetic, morphological and syntactic traits of the language in this text. Here one can trace theinfluence of local vernacular and of Bulgarian literary tradition on the author’s language. The analysis shows that Iliya R. Bluskov follows the language-spelling model of the Shumen literary school and that he has contributed to the general acceptance of a number of phonetic and morphological norms which have now been adopted in modern Standard Bulgarian.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 90-108
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian