A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH PAST PARTICIPLE AND THE BULGARIAN PAST PASSIVE PARTICIPLE

Abstract

The paper presents a contrastive analysis of the English Past Participle and the Bulgarian Past Passive Participle in terms of their etymology, usages and functional equivalence. It touches upon the process of grammaticalisation of the linguistic units in both languages and briefly describes their most frequent usages. The analysis also includes a corpus of examples excerpted from the Bulgarian National Corpus (BulNC) and examines translation equivalents in order to elaborate on the differences and similarities of these linguistic units.