Yavor Miltenov Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Abstract At the beginning of this publication, a brief introduction presents the outlines of the history of the medieval Narration of Father Agapius’ text, its Old Bulgarian translation and its distribution in Slavic medieval literature. The Narration is interesting both in terms of its […]

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Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Abstract The article analyzes some data for the use of the preposition прѣзъ in two juridical texts, related to the South of Slavs, namely: the Procheiros nomos from the Southern Slavonic Kormchaya book with commentaries according to its Ilovitsa copy from 1262, and the […]

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Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova, Vanya Micheva Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Abstract The paper examines the structural and semantic features of the interjections in two diachronic linguistic corpora: the notes of the Bulgarian writers from the 10th to the 18th century and the New Bulgarian damascenes from the 17th century. The affiliation of […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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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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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Yavor Miltenov Institute for Bulgarian Language. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 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 […]

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