Modality and syntactic configurations: The verb tryabva in Bulgarian

Elena Ivanova
Pushkin State Russian Language Institute / St. Petersburg University

Abstract: The article aims to identify relevant features that mark different types of modality in constructions with the Bulgarian modal verb tryabva followed by a da clause. Syntactic patterns formed with the impersonal verb tryabva are analysed in terms of their degree of syntactic transparency.

Keywords: modal verbs, types of modal meanings, impersonal verbs, restructuring, raising, Bulgarian

For citation: Ivanova E. Modality and syntactic configurations: The verb tryabva in Bulgarian. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2025. Vol. 8, iss. 2. Pp. 38–65. (In Rus.) doi:10.37632/PI.2025.36.88.002