Yavor Miltenov Institute for Bulgarian Language Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract In medieval sermons and homilies, ascribed to Clement of Ochrida in textual or in scholarly tradition, certain themes and motifs are developed by using identical phrases and ideas. The paper aims at gathering the most typical common passages and examining their role and function […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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Georgi Mitrinov Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The study of vocabulary in Revival written monuments is important for the history of the Bulgarian language. The article deals with the lexical features of middle Rhodopes Revival written monuments. The vocabulary of foreign origin (Greek and Turkish) included in the texts is compared. […]

Read More → EXPLAINED WORDS IN THE MIDDLE RHODOPE REVIVAL WRITTEN MONUMENTS WITH GREEK LETTERING (Features and trends in vocabulary variation)

Vanya Micheva Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The paper examines the lexical changes in two copies of Hagiography of s. Mary of Egypt and in two texts of Hagiography of s. Paraskeva. The first copy of Hagiography of s. Mary of Egypt is in Bdinski zbornik from 14th c. and the […]

Read More → DIASTRATY AND DIACHRONY. CHANGES IN THE LEXIS OF MEDIEVAL BULGARIAN MANUSCRIPTS