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Aspect Architecture in Bulgarian: Morphology and Semantics

Institut für Slavistik, Universitat Leipzig, Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
Languages 2025, 10(5), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050091
Submission received: 15 January 2025 / Revised: 26 March 2025 / Accepted: 3 April 2025 / Published: 24 April 2025

Abstract

The present paper addresses the aspectual categories of modern Bulgarian: viewpoint aspect (imperfective vs. perfective), temporal aspect (imperfect vs. aorist), and perfect aspect. More precisely, it concerns their morphological encoding, hierarchical relation, semantic contributions, and interaction. Within a compositional interval-relational framework, the study puts forward a synthesis of existing accounts so as to capture the Bulgarian aspect system as a whole. Among other things, it reveals that ‘aorist’ is a largely illusional grammatical entity, and demonstrates how an interval-relational analysis of the perfect can solve some puzzles associated with the so-called evidential moods.
Keywords: Bulgarian; aspect; tense; aorist; imperfect; perfect; morphology; semantics Bulgarian; aspect; tense; aorist; imperfect; perfect; morphology; semantics

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Pitsch, H. Aspect Architecture in Bulgarian: Morphology and Semantics. Languages 2025, 10, 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050091

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Pitsch H. Aspect Architecture in Bulgarian: Morphology and Semantics. Languages. 2025; 10(5):91. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050091

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Pitsch, Hagen. 2025. "Aspect Architecture in Bulgarian: Morphology and Semantics" Languages 10, no. 5: 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050091

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Pitsch, H. (2025). Aspect Architecture in Bulgarian: Morphology and Semantics. Languages, 10(5), 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050091

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