Нереалните условни периоди в съвременния италиански и български книжовен език

The subject of the study are conditional periods in whose prothasis an imaginary condition is expressed, connected with the present or a past point of reference. The purpose of the study is to establish (using linguistic material taken from works of modern Italian and Bulgarian writers) the similarities and differences between the linguistic items used in the analysed syntactic structure in both languages, as well as to discuss the reasons which determine them.