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Нулев и експлициран субект при изучаването на български език като чужд
Null and Overt Subject in Learning Bulgarian as a Foreign Language

Author(s): Antonia Radkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Cognitive linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Higher Education , Translation Studies, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Stylistics
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Bulgarian as a foreign language; null subject

Summary/Abstract: This study aims at exploring the omission/expression of subjects in written and oral texts of students who study Bulgarian as a foreign language in Lisbon University, Portugal. The language combination (Bulgarian and Portuguese) is especially interesting as both languages share the null subject property, therefore, a positive transfer of this structure was expected. The results obtained indicate that positive transfer of null subject is observed only partially compared with corpus data. Hypotheses are proposed as an explanation of this phenomenon. They are based on following principles: linguistic – sentence prototypicality; interface hypothesis; psychological – hesitation; psycholinguistic, psychological and language teaching – overdifferentiation; interference from one nonnative to another nonnative language.

  • Issue Year: 62/2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 471-483
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian