За генеричните именни групи в немския и българския език

The paper deals with generic noun phrases in German and Bulgarian. An attempt has been made to specify through comparison the means employed in the two languages to express generic meaning as well as to set up the paradigms of the translation correspondences of those means. Some attention has been given to the conditions determining the choice of a translation equivalent. In the study of the synonymous parallel means for the expression of genericness a number of issues bearing on the classification of generic noun phrases in Bulgarian are raised.