ON THE QUESTION OF THE SO-CALLED EMPHATIC RENARRATIVE/DUBITATIVE FORMS IN THE MODERN BULGARIAN AND THEIR FUNCTIONAL SEMANTIC EQUIVALENTS IN ITALIAN

VOL. 62, BOOK 1, PART B, 2024, pp. 285 – 301 Full text (Bg)

Author: Bozhidar Boyadzhiev

Affiliation: Medical University, Plovdiv

Abstract

The object of the present study is the linguistic means by which it is expressed dubitative meaning in the modern Bulgarian language, as well as functional their semantic equivalents in Italian. Our motive for exploring this one problematic, and in a comparative plan, is related to the fact that for semantics and the status of the so-called emphatic renarrative, or dubitative, forms of the type bil pisal, bila chela that different points of view are shared in the Bulgarian linguistic literature. Our first goal is to briefly present the main opinions of Bulgarian linguists on the research question, then to trace and analyze the functional semantic equivalents of linguistic markers of dubitativity in the Italian language. Last but not least, we aim to pay attention to the cases of symmetry and asymmetry in the translation of the core and peripheral operators from Bulgarian in Italian.

Key words: emphatic renarrative, dubitative forms, evidentiality, Modern Bulgarian, Italian, functional semantic equivalents