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Реализации на категорията "род" на местоименията в българския език като чужд
Gender Form Usage of the Bulgarian Pronouns by Non-Native Learners

Author(s): Galina Kurteva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Higher Education
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: Bulgarian as a foreign language; language symmetry; error analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article presents results from a large-scale study of several grammatical categories that learners of Bulgarian as a foreign language find challenging. The gender forms of the Bulgarian pronouns are discussed and a number of problems they present to non-native learners of the language are elicited via an extensive research programme. A taxonomy of the problems encountered is developed and each error type is amply exemplified. Cases of asymmetrical grammatical forms are explored between Bulgarian and several learner mother tongues.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 20-34
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian