In this article, the author proves (making comparison with Serbian) that the morpheme -to in Bulgarian personal nouns of the type Vancheto, Lencheto, Miteto, etc., is not a definite article by origin but a transformation of an old nt-stem plural ending.
Key words: Bulgarian language, definiteness, nt-stems.
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