Abstract
The article explores the contributions to linguistics made by Konstantin Petkovich (1824–1898), the first university-educated Bulgarian philologist, a graduate of St. Petersburg University, and offers a review of his lexicographical works, the most significant of them being his unfinished Bulgarian-Russian Dictionary, which remained un-published by him. The study focuses on Konstantin Petkovich’s views on the Bulgarian language as reflected in the translator’s notes to his 1852 Russian translation of Franc Miklosič’s work Lautlehre der Bulgarischen Sprache. In his notes, Petkovich sketched the main features of the classification of the Bulgarian dialects, outlined the Bulgarian linguistic territory and provided comparisons between Bulgarian grammatical forms and forms in Modern Greek and Romanian. He was, thus, the second linguist after Jernej Kopitar to compare forms in neighbouring Balkan languages. Keywords: Konstantin Petkovich, Bulgarian National Revival, classification of Bulgarian dialects, Balkan linguistics
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