Rada Vasileva St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Abstract The study investigates the problem of distinguishing between the conventional predicative and the optative subject complement in Bulgarian language. Using the help of valency theory, the hierarchical dependencies between the sentence’s elements are analyzed. Based on this, the common characteristics and the […]

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Magdalena Vassileva St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Abstract The information about the Bulgarian language courses taught at the academic level in Japan is limited and we could hardly find any research on the topic. While not as widespread as the study of major global languages such as English, Chinese, or […]

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Natalia Długosz Institute of Slavic Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland Abstract: The article juxtaposes Polish and Bulgarian terms in terms of the names of courts, the names of court authorities, assistants, parties and other persons involved in the case in Polish and Bulgarian. The compilation of the juxtaposition made it possible to resolve […]

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Teodora Krasteva Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Abstract Thе paper deals with adjective stable comparisons in Bulgarian and Russian. The material is studied in comparative terms. In addition to studying already established and recorded comparisons in dictionaries, this study includes corpus material and electronic sources of a highly […]

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Eleonora Yovkova-Shii University of Toyama, Japan Abstract This paper deals with the problem of the subject and its realization in the information structure of the Bulgarian simple declarative sentences in the written language. The main problems which this paper will make attempt to investigate, are how the pragmatic roles topic and focus are mapped on […]

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Georgi Mitrinov Institute for Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The article studies the inscriptions (Cyrillic and Greek) on the icons and cloaks of former Bulgarian churches in the Western Thrace and Eastern Aegean Macedonia. It presents new data on the Bulgarian ecclesiastical and historical heritage in the geographical area under consideration. In this […]

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Margaret Dimitrova Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Abstract This paper discusses the spelling of an administrative document of 1889 describing the clothing in Sofia region. Ten years after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman rule, the governors of the different regions of the liberated country were asked by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to […]

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Wojciech Sosnowski, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Maciej Jaskot, Pedagogical University of Cracow Diana Blagoeva, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The article discusses the concept behind the The dictionary of active Bulgarian and Polish phraseology [Leksykon aktywnej frazeologii bułgarskiej i polskiej]. The authors outline the theoretical underpinnings of […]

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Nikolay Paskalev Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The present study is an attempt to systematically describe compliments in modern Bulgarian language. In this regard, the scope of the category of compliment is first outlined, as by means of a set of functional-semantic and pragmatic differential features, compliments are distinguished from speech […]

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Marina Dzhonova Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Abstract The article treats the cases in spoken Bulgarian language where the speaker uses the yes/no questions as indirect directives. In terms of Brown and Levinson (1990) those speech acts are an off record politeness strategy. The pragmatic factors that determine the use of these indirect speech acts […]

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