Phraseological and phraseologized predicative constructions (observations based on Bulgarian-Russian parallel examples) Cover Image

Фразеологични и фразеологизирани предикативни конструкции (наблюдения върху българо-руски паралели)
Phraseological and phraseologized predicative constructions (observations based on Bulgarian-Russian parallel examples)

Author(s): Maria Todorova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Lexis, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Translation Studies, Phraseology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Bulgarian language; Russian language; phraseology; idioms; constructions
Summary/Abstract: The study examines idioms comprising predicatives and idiomatized predicative constructions as a subtype of the predicative constructions in Bulgarian. Their description is part of a typology of predicative constructions devised as part of an effort to model an ontology of state predicates. The analysis is based on the hypothesis that predicative constructions are lexical units, part of predicative structures, whose features place them on the border between morphology and syntax. These units share specific functions and semantics, and some of them are subject to lexicographic description. Data on predicative structure groups were extracted from various linguistic resources using the classification of predicative constructions in Bulgarian described in Todorova et al. (2021). The subtypes of predicative constructions with phraseological semantics – phraseologized predicative constructions and phraseological predicative constructions – are examined and discussed in light of the Bulgarian-Russian parallel examples.