Open AccessAre there three variants of the definite article in Macedonian?
Author(s) -
Zuzana Topolinjska
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi0662007t
Subject(s) - macedonian , bulgarian , demonstrative , interpretation (philosophy) , element (criminal law) , linguistics , function (biology) , philosophy , political science , genetics , law , biology
According to the Macedonian grammatical tradition there are three variants of the definite article in Standard Macedonian as well as in the majority of Macedonian dialects. The author argues that such an interpretation has a purely formal motivation. At the functional level only the element -ot can be treated as article, while -ov and -on function as postpositive demonstrative clitics. Mutatis mutandis the same is true for the Bulgarian Rodopi dialect