VOL. 60, BOOK 1, PART А, 2022, pp. 159 – 168 Full text (Bg)
Author: Krasimira Aleksova
Affiliation: St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Abstract
The article presents an all-encompassing model of the paradigm of the Bulgarian presumptive and its semantics. It also examines the use of the presumptive in seven historiographic works dated from the first half of the 20th century. It is also important to mention that no forms considered not be presumptive were found in the studied historiographic works. Given that, I draw the conclusion that the Bulgarian presumptive is actually a specific feature of the style of the historiographic works of the examined time period. Presumptive is likely to appear in the contextual environment of renarrative and conclusive and
does not often appear when the present historic tense is used.
Key words: presumptive, Bulgarian, epistemic modality, conclusive, renarrative, historiography, the first half of 20th century
