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This work constitutes the first comprehensive study of Balkan Slavic appellative forms of language. By interpreting literary and dialectal Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian forms, I seek to illustrate the interplay between the appellative and the other linguistic functio…

Through analysis of contemporary Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian dramas, this thesis develops a model of transitional national and heterogeneous Balkan self-representation. The discussed works by the foremost Balkan playwrights Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia); Dusan Kovacevic an…

This dissertation focuses on the nature of perfects and their relationship with other competing resultative constructions in Macedonian and Bulgarian. I show how we can systematically analyze the Macedonian and Bulgarian resultative constructions and demonstrate which of them ar…