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BULGARIAN AND LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS

Key words: Greenberg`s Universal no.28; exceptions; demonstrative pronouns in Bulgarian, relative pronouns in Bulgarian, Slovenian, Slovak, Czech, Old Bulgarian

(Abstract)

The paper presents some exceptions of Greenberg`s Universal no.28, in which the derivation is not placed between the root and the inflection, but the inflection follows the root and precedes the derivation. Typical example is the Bulgarian demonstrative pronoun tak-a-va (Feminine form), tak-o-va (Neutral), tak-i-va (Plural), meaning `such kind of`, in which the derivation va follows the inflections o-, -a-, -i-. The same exceptions of the rule are the forms of relative pronouns in Bulgarian (e.g. koj-to MASC., koja-to FEM, koe-to NEUT, koi-to PL` which`) as well as the relative pronouns in Slovenian, Slovak, and Czech, where we can trace the origin of the construction to Old Bulgarian and Common Slavic.

The complicated word-formation of pronouns in Bulgarian and some other Slavonic languages presents unique structures, which throw new light upon the morphological patterns in the World languages.

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