Gueorgui Hristovsky
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal
Antonia Radkova
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-3-8HA
Abstract. The study provides a detailed examination of the word formation of Bulgarian adjectives with the suffix -en. The analysis focuses on morphophonological changes related to the vowel -e, as well as the factors determining its deletion or retention. The characteristics of syllable codas, along with phonological and other contexts conditioning the changes, are explored. The research incorporates some contemporary linguistic models and offers rules for explaining the observed phenomena, which are rewritten into relatively simple instructions for teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language.
Keywords:: e – zero alternations; syllable codas; phonology; yer vocalization; teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language
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