Category: 2019_IIBE-XXXII
Quo Vadis Bulgarian Studies: Prof. Machiel Kiel on Bulgaria and Bulgarians. Part I
Maxim Stamenov Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract Why Bulgarian studies? Each professional in the field has a personal story to tell on the subject. For Bulgarians it is a matter of definite interest to find out why a foreigner may choose to dedicate their professional life to Bulgaria and Bulgarians instead […]
Read More → Quo Vadis Bulgarian Studies: Prof. Machiel Kiel on Bulgaria and Bulgarians. Part ILinguistic Manipulation in Bulgaria During the Period Between 1945 and 1989: Creation of the Concept “Future”
Ivo Panchev Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The article presents a linguocultural review of Bulgaria’s recent socialist history. By means of drawing linguistic data from various sources (dictionaries, glossaries, lexical databases, the press, etc.), the author attempts at recreating the concept of ‘the future’ in its various realizations. In unison with […]
Read More → Linguistic Manipulation in Bulgaria During the Period Between 1945 and 1989: Creation of the Concept “Future”Properties of the Noun Attachment Site for Relative Clauses in Bulgarian
Svetla Koeva Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract Тhe study is part of a wider research that examines different aspects of clause linkage in Bulgarian. A definition for a clause is formulated to draw up the scope of the study. The semantic features of the noun attachment site are presented: subject, complement, […]
Read More → Properties of the Noun Attachment Site for Relative Clauses in BulgarianGrammatical Meaning and Types of Grammaticalization
Vera Marovska The Paisiy Hilendarski University of Plovdiv Abstract The research paper focuses on the specific character of the grammatical features and some particular cases of grammaticalization in the contemporary Bulgarian language. The grammatical feature could be expressed by one morpheme; it could be a categorically new combination of grammatical features and a combination of […]
Read More → Grammatical Meaning and Types of GrammaticalizationOn the Question of the Grammaticalisation of Edin in the Field of Indefiniteness
Krasimira Aleksova Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski” Abstract This research article revisits the linguistic problem of whether edin, edna, edno, edni in the Bulgarian language are forms of a grammaticalised indefinite article which expresses the meaning of ‘specific indefiniteness’. In order to achieve the objectives of my research, I apply the principle of obligatoriness when […]
Read More → On the Question of the Grammaticalisation of Edin in the Field of IndefinitenessOn the Concept of “The Dictionary of Active Bulgarian and Polish Phraseology“
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 […]
Read More → On the Concept of “The Dictionary of Active Bulgarian and Polish Phraseology“Lexical Expression of Sadness: from the Homeric Language to the Modern Bulgarian
Bilyana Mihaylova, Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Albena Mircheva Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Abstract The paper aims at comparing the lexical items expressing sadness in Homer’s poem Iliad and one of its translated versions in Bulgarian. Our approach comprises the following steps: compilation of synonym sets with the meaning ‘sadness’; contextual analysis of the identified words in […]
Read More → Lexical Expression of Sadness: from the Homeric Language to the Modern BulgarianThe Prepositionalisation as a Word-forming Method in the Old Bulgarian Language
Tatyana Ilieva Cyrillo-Меthodian Research Centre, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstact The article studies, from the diachronic aspect of the development of the Bulgarian language, the process of prepositionalization as a case of transposition. The formation of the secondary prepositions is tracked on the basis of the transition of the full words to the function words. […]
Read More → The Prepositionalisation as a Word-forming Method in the Old Bulgarian LanguageThe Law and the Law Books: Two Examples from the Translated Juridical Literature on the South of Slavs in the 14th Century
Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova Institutе for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The article focuses on the following two texts: About the Civil Laws from the Introduction to the Mathew Blastares’s Syntagma, and the textual unity From the Law Books about the Kinship and the Forbidden Marriages in the so called Nomocanon Cotelerii, or the Slavonic […]
Read More → The Law and the Law Books: Two Examples from the Translated Juridical Literature on the South of Slavs in the 14th Century