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Theoretical Issues on Grammaticalization of the Bulgarian and Macedonian Postpositional Definite Articles
- Cross-Cultural Studies
- 2025, 74(), pp.193~236
- DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2025.74..193
- Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
- Research Area : Humanities > Literature
- Received : January 10, 2025
- Accepted : February 7, 2025
- Published : February 28, 2025
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ABSTRACT
This study examines some important facts and theoretical issues concerning grammaticalization of the Bulgarian and Macedonian postpositional definite articles. First, there are different opinions about perspectives on what qualifies a definite marker as an article. Meeting all the necessary criteria, the Bulgarian and Macedonian nominal definiteness markers are proven to be highly grammaticalized. Second, Bulgarian and Macedonian dialects feature either a monistic or a tripartite postpositional definite article system, and there is a debate about which system appeared first. Third, linguists argue over whether the Bulgarian and Macedonian postpositional articles are enclitics being an independent word or affixes as part of a word. Fourth, there are different hypotheses about when and from where the Bulgarian and Macedonian postpositional definite articles originate. Finally, there is a question about a correlation between the emergence of postpositional articles and the loss of nominal cases in Bulgarian and Macedonian, and a correlation between the definiteness of articles and the definiteness of past tense forms in these languages.
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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.