LEXICAL MEANS OF EXPRESSING NEGATION IN MODERN BULGARIAN

Abstract

The scientific analysis is focused on part of the peripheral means in the field of the functional semantic category of polarity in the modern Bulgarian language, i.e. the lexical means of expressing negation. After a brief presentation of the semantic and structural characteristics of the field under study, the individual groups of negative lexical modifiers are thoroughly analysed. Special attention is paid to the specificity in the function of these modifiers and to their combination with the core explicators of negation in particular.