THE PURIST APPROACH IN THE FIRST CODIFICATION IN THE GRAMMAR OF MODERN STANDARD BULGARIAN BY FATHER NEOFIT RILSKI

Abstract

The article is dedicated to one important feature of the codification of modern literary language, which influenced its further development and functioning. This is the purist line in the views of Father Neophyte Rilski, reflected in the small dictionary at the end of his ‘Bolgarska gramatika, sega pervo sochinena’ (1835). He opens discussion on numerous topics in the extensive study ‘Philologichesko preduvedomlenie’. Open to dialogue and tolerance in the exchange of views on the rules and their codification, he repeatedly expresses his viewpoint, caring for a relatively pure language, shrugging off oriental layer in the vocabulary.