ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUTE FOR BULGARIAN LANGUAGE PROF. LYUBOMIR ANDREYCHIN 2024

The Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin is pleased to announce the forthcoming edition of its Annual International Conference (ConfIBL2024), which marks the Institute’s 82nd anniversary. The Conference will take place on 15 and 16 May 2024 in Sofia.
The Conference has established itself as a prestigious forum for sharing the latest achievements and trends in all areas of the study of the Bulgarian language in Bulgaria and around the world, as well as the achievements of the ten departments of the Institute, including research carried out under national and international projects and in cooperation with scholarly centres in Bulgaria and abroad.

Scope

The Conference scope covers (but is not limited to) the following areas:

• Contemporary Bulgarian Language
• Bulgarian Lexicology and Lexicography
• Terminology and Terminography
• History of Bulgarian Language
• Bulgarian Dialectology
• Bulgarian Etymology
• Bulgarian Onomastics
• Ethnolinguistics
• General and Comparative Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics

Conference Dates and Location

15 – 16 May 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria

Conference Format

The Conference will take place in person.

Important Dates

20 January 2024: Paper submission deadline
16 February 2024: Author notification deadline
5 March 2024: Deadline for submission of accepted papers
15 May 2024: Release of the official electronic version of the Proceedings

Programme Committee

Svetla Koeva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair)

Hristina Deykova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Co-chair)

Maxim Stamenov – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Co-chair)

Tatyana Aleksandrova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Bistra Andreeva – Saarland University, Germany

Luchia Antonova-Vasileva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Yana Atanasova – University of Franche-Comté, France

Diana Blagoeva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Anna Choleva-Dimitrova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Stanka Fitneva – Queen’s University, Canada

Svitlana Georgieva – Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine

Elena Ivanova – Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

Elena Karagjosova – Free University of Berlin, Germany

Maria Kitanova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Iliana Krapova – University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy

Corinna Leschber – Institute for Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Studies, Germany

Alexander Letuchiy – National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Marek Majer – University of Łódź, Poland

Vyara Maldzhieva – Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

Christina Markou – Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Olga Mladenova – University of Calgary, Canada

Mitko Sabev – Saarland University, Germany

Joanna Satoła-Staśkowiak – Academy of Humanities & Economics in Lodz, Poland

Irina Sedakova – Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Petar Sotirov – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland

Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva – University of South Carolina, USA

Irina Temnikova – Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE), Bulgaria

Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Elena Uzeneva – Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Mila Valchanova – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Mariola Walczak-Mikołajczakowa – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Eleonora Yovkova-Shii – University of Toyama, Japan

Anton Zimmerling – Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Russia

Rumjana Zlatanova – University of Heidelberg, Germany

Piotr Złotkowski – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland

Organising Committee

Luchia Antonova-Vasileva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (chair)

Simeon Stefanov – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Iliyana Kuneva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Kalina Micheva-Peycheva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Mihaela Kuzmova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Valentina Stefanova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Ivelina Stoyanova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Svetlozara Leseva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Margarita Koteva – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Kristiyana Simeonova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Maya Vlahova-Angelova – Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Papers are submitted anonymously in Bulgarian, English or Russian. They should not exceed 15 standard pages (inclusding the list of references). Papers submitted to the conference will be provisionally accepted after a positive conclusion from an anonymous peer review.
It is required that papers are formatted according to the instructions published on the conference website (//ibl.bas.bg/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Instructions_for_Authors_BG_2024.pdf). (A Word template can be downloaded here.) To preserve anonymity, names of the authors and thei affiliation should be omitted in the initial submission. Self-citations, which may violate anonymity, should be avoided.
Papers should be submitted in .pdf format via the the EasyChair conference management system (after logging in, you need to select the role of ‘author’ and then ‘Make a new submission’). Authors who do not have an EasyChair account can sign up at: https://easychair.org/account/signup. Please note that the deadline for submitting the full text of the papers is January 20, 2024. During submission, each author must choose from the list of topics the ones that are most relevant for the paper.
It is envisaged that the Conference proceedings will be submitted for evaluation and indexing in the ISI Web of Science.
Code of Ethics

Ethics for authors (in Bulgarian)