ОСМИ ФОРУМ „БЪЛГАРСКА ГРАМАТИКА“ / EIGHT FORUM ON BULGARIAN GRAMMAR

Abstract

The Eighth Forum on Bulgarian Grammar titled Predication, Predicates, Predicatives was held on 21 and 22 October 2021. The Forum was organised by the Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Bulgarian Language of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. The forum was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of one of the most renowned Bulgarian linguists of our time – Prof. DSc Yordan Penchev Penchev. The Forum’s topic encompassed a broad range of theoretical and applied issues related to the lexical peculiarities, the semantic description and the classification of (selected classes of) predicates and predicatives, the description of grammatical categories involved in the realisation of predication, the study of the syntactic patterns of argument expression and the identification of relevant semantic and grammatical features. The main focus of the discussion was centred around (though not limited to) the following issues: • Lexical and semantic characterisation of various classes of predicates and predicatives • Approaches to the description of valency and argument selection • The expression of predication at the morphological level • Semantic and syntactic structure of sentences with predicates and predicatives • Description of semantic and grammatical constraints on subject, complement and adjunct realisation. Following the established tradition, the papers presented at the Forum are published in Balgarski ezik’s Supplement.