Robertino Stoilov

Research interests:

• ethnolinguistics
• linguocultural studies
• dialectology
• lexicology
• lexicography
• word formation

Education and professional experience

2011 – 2016: Master’s degree in Balkan Studies (Philologist-Balkanist), South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad

2020 – 2024: PhD student (withdrawn with the right to defend) at the Department of Bulgarian Language, Faculty of Philology, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad

2024 – ongoing: Philologist-Specialist at the Department of Ethnolinguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Research projects

2024 – 2025 – Terminological Dictionary of Ethnolinguistics. Funded by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yoanna Kirilova. Participant

2021 – National Philological Readings for Students and Doctoral Candidates – South-West University 2021, RP-C1/21. Duration: March–November 2021. Internal project at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”

2022 – National Philological Readings for Students and Doctoral Candidates – South-West University 2022, RP-C1/22. Duration: April–November 2022. Internal project at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”

2023 – National Philological Readings for Students and Doctoral Candidates – South-West University 2023, RP-C1/23. Duration: April–November 2023. Internal project at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”

2024 – National Philological Readings for Students and Doctoral Candidates – South-West University 2024, RP-C1/24. Duration: March–November 2024. Internal project at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”

Articles in journals

Стоилов, Р. Аористният суфикс S в български език – маркер за „другост“ или стилистично оцветяване [The aorist suffix *-s* in Bulgarian: marker of “otherness” or stylistic coloring]. – Лингвистични проблеми, 2021, кн. 2, с. 189 – 197. ISSN: 2682-9673.

Стоилов, Р. Митолингвистично изследване върху названията на вихрушката с мотивационен модел ‘митично същество – самовила, юда’ в българския език [A mytholinguistic study of the names for the whirlwind in Bulgarian motivated by the model ‘mythical being – samovila, juda’]. – Лингвистични проблеми, 2022, кн. 3, с. 117 – 123. ISSN: 2682-9673.

Articles in thematic collections

Попов, Б., Р. Стоилов. Митолингвистично изследване върху названия на дъгата с мотивационни модели ‘атрибут на бога’ и ‘символ на плодородието’ в българския език [A mytholinguistic study of rainbow names motivated by the models ‘attribute of the deity’ and ‘symbol of fertility’ in Bulgarian]. – В: Доклади от Международната годишна конференция на Института за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“ (София, 2022 година). София: Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2022, с. 436 – 444. ISSN 2683-118X (print), ISSN 2683-1198 (online).

Стоилов, Р. Mytholinguistic analysis of some Bulgarian dialect names of the rainbow and the whirlwind. – In: VI. međunarodni leksikološko-leksikografski znanstveni skup, Leksikografija i vrijednosti u jeziku (23 – 24. studenoga 2023), Zagreb, Hrvatska. Forthcoming – peer-reviewed by the program and organizing committee (Dr. Amir Kapetanović).

Стоилов, Р. (2024). Митолингвистично изследване на названията на дъгата в българския език с основен компонент пояс [A mytholinguistic study of rainbow names in Bulgarian with the core component “belt”]. – In: Славистика сегодня: Polyslav – Современная славистика: Тенденции, проблемы и перспективы. Vol. 1. Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 49 – 57. ISBN: 978 – 3 – 631 – 91002 – 3 (Print), E-ISBN: 978 – 3 – 631 – 9100 4-7 (E-PDF), E- ISBN: 978 – 3 – 631 – 9100 5-4 (E-PUB).