Bulgarian article question

[E Wayles Browne]

Dear Colleagues,
I'm interested in instances where prescriptive grammarians insist
on a point of usage that has no support in the previous development
of the language. The Bulgarian definite article seems to be an
instance like that: if I'm not mistaken, grammars call for -T at
the end of the masculine singular article when a noun or phrase
is the subject, vs. no -T on objects of verbs and of prepositions,
despite the fact that some dialects had -T on all masculines
without distinction of case, while the other dialects had no -T
on masculines, again paying no attention to case.

I believe there was a paper published recently giving statistics:
how many Bulgarians use T or no T according to the norm, how
many use T on all masculine nouns and phrases, how many use
no T on masculines at all. Can someone give me the reference?
-- 
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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