접촉에서 변형으로: 불가리아어와 마케도니아어에서 후치정관사 범주의 출현과 활용을 중심으로

Abstract

The Old Slavic language, which did not have a grammatical mechanism of a definite article, used forms such as common nouns, proper nouns, and denoting pronouns to express definiteness. The emergence of definite articles, and post-positional definite articles in the Slavic language is a important issue in slavic linguistic history. In the meantime, academic explanation for this is that the appearance of the post-positional definite article in Bulgarian and Macedonian was grammatically fixed in the ancient Slavic demonstrative pronoun, which was used as a substitute for the Greek pre-positional article in the translation of the Greek Bible. However, looking at this phenomenon from the sociolinguistics and typological perspective of Balkan linguistics, it is significantly important the relationship between Romanian and Illyrian linguistic traditions. The primary purpose of this paper is to study the precise and in-depth correlation between language contact and language transformation. It is a verification that the post-positional definite article form, which was not inherently, was created through linguistic contact between Balkan languages. In conclusion, post-positional definite articles in Bulgarian or Macedonian have the tangible characteristics of Slavic in terms of form, and can be said to be the result of contact with Balkan languages ​​in terms of location. Concepts and meanings related to definiteness include specificity, deixis meaning, coherence and genericity. A study on the concepts related to these definiteness can additionally explain the semantic background of the emergence of post definite articles in Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, and differentiate them from similar grammatical mechanisms such as common nouns, proper nouns, and demonstrative pronouns and their semantic meaning.