REGARDING THE WRITTEN DIFFERENTIATION OF DIRECT FROM INDIRECT CASE IN NAMES OF FEMININE GENDER IN DOCUMENTS OF THE VARNA MUNICIPALITY FROM THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY (After the Model of the Plovdiv Literary Language School)

VOL. 63, BOOK 1, PART A, 2025, pp. 107 – 120 Full text (Bg)

Author: Kolyo Hubenov

Affiliation: Varna Regional Museum of History

Abstract

The present study is based on more than 200 examples (single words and expressions) from 10 documents (contracts) written between 1868 – 1870 in Na-tional-Revival period Varna. The results show that the author of the texts, the scriber Konstantin Tyulev, doesn’t follow (or follows very loosely) the model ap-plied by the Plovdiv Literary Language School in distinguishing direct from indi-rect cases in names (nouns, adjectives, numerals) and in pronouns in the feminine singular. Although he writes the endings -а/-я or -ѫ/-ѭ, and the article morpheme is either -та or -тѫ, their use often does not reflect the syntactic role of the exam-ples but features, rather, of the living speech.

Key words: Bulgarian National Revival period, modern Bulgarian lan-guage, Varna, Plovdiv Literary Language School, declension, case endings