Abstract:
This article studies the capacities of proper nouns (nomina propria) to serve as motivating (producing) units in forming new words in the modern literary Bulgarian language. The author discusses the deproprial derivatives (substantives, and to a lesser extent verbs) formed from different types of proper nouns, and explores the word-formation categories and types to which the resultant derivations refer. The aim is to establish the motivational potential of proper nouns in the Bulgarian language at this stage of its evolvement.
