The Meaning ‘To Scold’ as a Result of Regular Semantic Development Cover Image

Значението ‘карам се на някого’ като резултат от регулярен семантичен развой
The Meaning ‘To Scold’ as a Result of Regular Semantic Development

Author(s): Krasimira Fuchedzhieva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on a group of Bulgarian verbs with meaning ’to scold’, which arises as a result of regular semantic development. Cases of semantic parallelism are found in verbs with the original meaning ’to shout’, ’to bark’, ’to injure the integrity of something’ and ’to soil, to make dirty’. The observations made can serve as a basis for etymologizing verbs with the meaning ’to scold’ whose origin is uncertain or not quite clear, and in a more general sense can be seen as a contribution to semantic typology.

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