The Bulgarian future tense from the aspect of natural morphology

Abstract

Natural morphology is an elaborated part of natural language theory. Natural morphology, which arose in the late 1970s, is associated with the names of Dressler, Mayerthaler, Panagl and Wurzel. This linguistic theory offers an ideal theoretical frame to analyse the changes of languages within their system. The documented history of the Bulgarian language is now more than a thousand years old and it is also well investigated. The combination of Natural Morphology and the results from the Bulgarian Historical Linguistics seems to be productive in testing the mentioned part of the Natural Language Theory and also offers a chance to observe new correspondences concerning the historical changes in Bulgarian language. This study aims to give a brief review about how principles work in the historical change of the Bulgarian future tense.

Keywords

• language history
• future tense
• natural morphology
• principles
• language change