NON-INFERENTIAL USES OF THE CONCLUSIVE IN THE MODERN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
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2023
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Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski"
Abstract
In the article I present 3 types of non-inferential uses of the conclusive in
the modern Bulgarian language. The first type can be called "weak knowledge"
of the speaker who expresses as their own statement about common facts, without
the speaker themself witnessing the events. The second case is observed in indirect
speech when using mainly the tenses of the past plan. Then the conclusive
expresses the integrated feature of indirect information and competes with the renarrative.
The third case represents a transposition of the conclusive in the field
of the indicative. The speaker expresses with the conclusive an expressive, emphatic
personal affirmation of witnessed facts from the past.
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evidentiality, conclusive/inferential, renarrative, plan of the past, plan of the non-past