VOL. 58, BOOK 1, PART А, 2020 Full text (Bg)
Author: Krasimira Chakarova
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
The scientific analysis is focused on part of the peripheral means in the field of the functional semantic category of polarity in the modern Bulgarian language, i.e. the lexical means of expressing negation. After a brief presentation of the semantic and structural characteristics of the field under study, the individual
groups of negative lexical modifiers are thoroughly analysed. Special attention is paid to the specificity in the function of these modifiers and to their combination with the core explicators of negation in particular.
Key words: functional semantic category, functional semantic field, polarity, negation, existential status of the action, modifiers, lexical modifiers of negation
