Bulgarian Causatives

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Pages: 151-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/SEUZ2473

Abstract:

The paper is an attempt to look at Bulgarian causative verbs in cognitive aspect – imposed by changes in the way of thinking of the speaker as their own choice to use a transitive causative verb. In reference to the degrees of transitivity, it was found that the grammatical change in transitivity ~ intransitivity among ex-reflexives is more striking in stylistic or pragmatic sense in comparison with regular transitive, derived by removal of preposition. We present the model of Nedyalkov & Silnitsky with Bulgarian examples, as well as a scale of prototypical causativity. The comparative research method is necessary because of more frequent resemblance to the English language in the scope of verbal morphology. We also offer a brief description of the motifs which give reasons for verbal tranisitivization and dereflexivization.

Keywords:

causality; labile verbs; the lexico-grammatical category of transitivity ↔ intransitivity.

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