| dc.description.abstract | The article presents different undrstandings of distinguished linguists of
the grammatical meaning of the morpheme -h-/sh- in Modern Bulgarian, Old
Bulgarian and Proto-Slavic. The functional use of the verb forms that are
marked with -h-/-sh- and express past tense and dependent taxis, is analyzed
in two historical works written by H. Pavlovich (Павлович/Pavlovich 1844)
and M. Drinov (Дринов/Drinov 1869). On the basis of the analysis, a
conclusion is formulated: the process of grammaticalization of the
evidentiality meaning, which began in the 19th century, hasn’t been
completed yet; the evidentiality morpheme -h-/sh- in Modern Bulgarian is a
transformed old marker of two grammatical meanings in Proto-Slavic: past
tense and dependent taxis. | en_US |
