The Language of the Novel “Drunk Father, Murderer of his Children” Written by Iliya R. Bluskov

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Pages: 90-108

Abstract:

The article is a detailed account of the language used in “Drunk Father, Murderer of His Children”, a novel written by the Bulgarian Revival writer Iliya R. Bluskov and published in 1879–1880. The article tackles major graphic, spelling, phonetic, morphological and syntactic traits of the language in this text. Here one can trace the influence of local vernacular and of Bulgarian literary tradition on the author’s language. The analysis shows that Iliya R. Bluskov follows the language-spelling model of the Shumen literary school and that he has contributed to the general acceptance of a number of phonetic and morphological norms which have now been adopted in modern Standard Bulgarian.

Keywords:

history of modern Standard Bulgarian; Iliya R. Bluskov; novel; graphic, spelling, phonetic, morphological and syntactic traits; language-spelling model; dialect; literary tradition.

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