Post-Positional Articles in Names of Corporate Bodies

The Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, as well as the Torlak dialect of the Serbian language, share a grammatical feature that distinguishes them from all other Slavic languages: the use of definite articles. These definite articles are typically placed at the end of the nouns that they modify: e.g. gora “mountain”, gorata “the mountain”; ezero “lake”, ezeroto “the lake”. Because of their placement after the nouns that they modify, these articles are known as post-positional articles. In a noun phrase, they are placed after a modifier immediately preceding a noun, e.g. goli︠a︡moto ezero ‘a large lake.’

Authorized access points for corporate names with post-positional articles should be based on usage. A variant access point for the form without the article is not required; however, it may be helpful to supply one, in accordance with LC-PCC policy statement if the name recorded as the preferred name for a corporate body has one or more alternative linguistic forms, record them as variant names (LC-PCC, PS 11.2.3.6).

Examples (in MARC format):

110 2 Bŭlgarskata asot︠s︡iat︠s︡ii︠a︡ za menidzhmŭnt i finansi

410 2 Bŭlgarska asot︠s︡iat︠s︡ii︠a︡ za menidzhmŭnt i finansi

670 Biznes spektŭr, fev. '99: ǂb p. 1 (Bŭlgarskata asot︠s︡iat︠s︡ii︠a︡ za menidzhmŭnt i finansi)

110 2 Združenie na pravnici od stopanstvoto na RM

410 2 Združenie na pravnici od stopanstvo na Republika Makedonija

Revised: Sept. 21, 2015