Genew-Puhalewa, Iliana and Popova, Gergana. 2023. Bulgarian Evidential Forms and Wierzbicka’s NSM. Slavia Meridionalis, 23, 2938. ISSN 1233-6173 [Article]

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Our focus in this paper is on the semantics of a particular grammatical category of Bulgarian, namely evidentiality. Our starting point is the account of evidentiality in Macedonian and Bulgarian in Wierzbicka (in Semantics: Primes and Universals. Oxford: 1996). We elaborate and expand on this proposal by suggesting semantic formulae for the renarrative, dubitative, inferential, and mirative forms, incorporating Wierzbicka’s universal semantic primitives know and think. Our aim is to provide a stepping stone towards precise intra- and inter-linguistic comparisons.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.11649/sm.2938
Keywords:	natural semantic metalanguage, evidentiality, dubitativity, inferentiality, Bulgarian language, grammar
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event 16 November 2023 Accepted 31 December 2023 Published
Item ID:	35687
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2024 13:37
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2024 13:37
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35687

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