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Проявление на квазивъпросителните изказвания в българската разговорна реч
Presence of quasi interrogative statements in Bulgarian colloqial speech

Author(s): Aksenia Todorova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: conversation; interrogative sentences; quasi questions; dialogue; monologue

Summary/Abstract: The report summarizes the results of the research carried out in connection to quasi interrogative sentences in Bulgarian Colloguial Speech and the ways the latter exist in speech. There are two types of quasi-interrogative statements - dialogical and monological. The report analyses the realization of quasi-interrogative sentences in dialogues and examines their function in monological speech. There are also examples of different combinations of quasi-interrogative sentences and other syntactic entites within the speech fragments.