@article {Алексиева1992,
	title = {Английската и българската екзистенциална конструкция {\textendash} резултат от прилагането на различни когнитивни модели},
	journal = {Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics},
	volume = {17},
	year = {1992},
	pages = {84{\textendash}91},
	abstract = {The differences between the English and the Bulgarian existential constructions are discussed as the result of the application of two different cognitive models, namely: (a) The English there + be + NP as the result of a specific type of metonymy typical of English, labelled as {\quotedblbase}predicate-splitting{\textquotedblleft} mapping, and (b) The Bulgarian има + NP as a metaphorical expansion based on the metaphor {\quotedblbase}Space (as if) has the entities inhabiting it{\textquotedblleft}.},
	keywords = {Contrastive Studies, Съпоставителни изследвания, Contrastive studies},
	author = {Алексиева, Бистра}
}
