The dative arguments in Bulgarian

This dissertation is a study of the syntactic and semantic properties of arguments marked with a dative clitic in Bulgarian. Contemporary Bulgarian has been claimed to have lost its Case system compared to its previous historical stages. Yet, as the current study demonstrates, the language has systematically utilized a morphological marker in the form of a dative clitic to identify a particular set of arguments across a wide variety of structural environments - the dative arguments. The major proposal advanced here is that dative arguments are treated uniformly by the grammar of the language because they uniformly represent peripheral arguments introduced in the specifier of a functional head that assigns to them morphological dative Case.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Iovtcheva, Snejana P.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Norvin Richards.

• Linguistics and Philosophy.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122427

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122427