La modificazione frasale del nome in bulgaro

This paper discusses the so-called finite “clausal complements” of Ns in Bulgarian (e.g., novinata, če e živ ‘the news that he is alive’), introduced by a conjunction typically used for clausal complements of Vs. Building up on work by Stowell (1981) and Grimshaw (1990), it is argued, in the first part of the paper, that such nominal expansions are in fact modifiers of the noun, rather than its complements. In the second part of the paper, it is suggested that such clausal modifiers can be analyzed at the underlying level as non-restrictive relative clauses whose relative part gets subsequently reduced at the surface level of syntax.