Published: 2020-12-30

Past passive participles of intransitive verbs in the language of the Bulgarian minority in Romania: A closer look at contact-induced grammatical change. Našite bălgari să dojdeni or dušleli

Kenta Sugai
Zeszyty Łużyckie
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.718

Abstract

This article discusses an innovative grammatical structure with past passive participles of intransitive verbs  оbserved in the language of a Bulgarian minority in Brăneşti, Romania. The aim of this article is to reveal the mechanism of contact-induced grammatical change which seems to have occurred in the Bulgarian dialect of Brăneşti under the influence of the Romanian language. The results of the analysis, based on materials from the author’s fieldwork, indicate that a grammatical structure involving the past passive participles of intransitive verbs hasarisen in the Brăneşti dialect as a result of grammatical replication of Romanian past participles.

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JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K1317509

Keywords:

language of Bulgarian minority, language contact, Romanian, past passive participle of intransitive verbs, contact-induced grammatical change

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Sugai, K. (2020). Past passive participles of intransitive verbs in the language of the Bulgarian minority in Romania: A closer look at contact-induced grammatical change. Našite bălgari să dojdeni or dušleli. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 54, 51–65. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.718

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