Why do first- and second-person renarratives in Bulgarian need an auxiliary?

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Pages: 7-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/AGXC6973

Abstract:

In Bulgarian linguistics, no distinction is made – in most cases and as a general rule also, between the semantics of the set of first-person plus second-person present perfect and renarrative verb forms, on the one hand, and the semantics of third-person verb forms, on the other. The analysis in this paper shows that a clear distinction must be made between these two sets of present perfect and renarrative forms. Otherwise, no sensible understanding of the present perfect and the renarrative can be reached. Apart from that, the reason why first- and second-person renarrative forms in Bulgarian need an auxiliary would remain a mystery. The article puts forward an explanation of the reasons why first- and second-person renarrative forms need an auxiliary

Keywords:

renarrative, perfect, cancellability (cancellable content) of the perfect

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