Inflectionless adjectives in Bulgarian as a case of nominal predication

This paper deals with the so-called inflectionless adjectives in Bulgarian. Several
new empirical observations are made regarding the syntactic distribution, the
 restrictions on definiteness, and the exclamatory flavour of the noun phrases in
which these adjectives occur. The main proposal is that these lexical items are
predicates of (nominal) small clauses and that the construction in question does
not seem to be limited to these exceptional adjectives. It is argued that both the
attributive type and the comparative type of nominal predication are attested in
Bulgarian, on a par with English small clauses like an idiot doctor and an idiot of
a man. I outline a syntactic account of these two types of nominal predication,
according to which the two types correspond to different structures. I also propose
that the semantic and syntactic properties of inflectionless adjectives are best
 accounted for if we assume that they combine with a null noun.