IN FIRST-PERSON, SINGULAR (AN OVERVIEW OF THE BULGARIAN EPIGRAPHS OF THE 12TH – 15TH CENTURIES)

Abstract

The current paper focuses on who, why and how creates epigraphs that speak in first-person, singular. For this purpose, we analyzed 45 inscriptions, composed in Bulgarian and dated from the 12th–15th centuries. The research has three tasks: to indicate the probable “authors” of these inscriptions; to consider the reasons for writing them – what is “written about” and what is “done” in first-person, singular; to mark the individual motives transferred from one culture to another through the formulas and “cultural clichés” used in the texts. Also, a linguistic comment is made on word forms marking specific linguistic processes.