Browsing by Subject "English"
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ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGE-SCHEMATIC CHARACTER OF ANATOMICAL TERMS IN BULGARIAN AND ENGLISH IN VIEW OF METAPHORICITY
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2015)Image schemata are preconceptual mental structures, recurring patterns, stemming from sensorimotor stimuli (Johnson 1987). They form the very fabric of our conceptual apparatus and are also a motivating factor for term ... -
BULGARIAN, POLISH AND ENGLISH TERMINOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (FORMAL ANALYSIS)
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2018)This paper studies the terminology in the field of Public health in three language version of the EU acquis: Bulgarian, Polish and English. Only the terms with a legal definition in an EU legal act are being analysed. The ... -
NOUN PHRASE MODIFIERS REALIZED BY CLAUSES IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN SCIENTIFIC TEXTS
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2018)English noun phrase modifiers realized by clauses can be of two types: modifiers realized by relative clauses and modifiers realized by infinitival and participial clauses, i.e. by nonfinite clauses. Both types can realize ... -
ON THE MATTER OF THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE IN BULGARIAN THROUGH THE JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN ENGLISH AND ITALIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2023-05-19)The object of the current study concerns the morphological category of determination in Bulgarian, English and Italian. More specifically, the paper deals with the unmarked member of the category – indefiniteness, and ... -
PHONETIC EFFECTS ON AMERICAN ENGLISH FLAPPING: THE ROLE OF CONSONANT REPETITION
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2013)The American English phonological flapping rule results in the weakening of /t/ phonemes when isolated in onset position between stressed and unstressed syllables (obligatorily) or two unstressed syllables (optionally). ... -
SEMANTICS OF NONRESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN ENGLISH
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2017)Subordinate relative clauses are of two types: restrictive and nonrestrictive. In Bulgarian, the punctuation of the two types is the same, with the commas being obligatory to mark the clause boundaries; in English, in ... -
TYPES OF APPROXIMATION EXPRESSED BY ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN ALTERNATIVE INTERROGATIVE STRUCTURES
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2019)The paper presents the results from a corpus-based study of the types of approximation expressed by English and Bulgarian alternative interrogative structures. Corpora data indicate that the meaning of approximation is ... -
WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE CATEGORY OF DIMINUTIVENESS IN ENGLISH
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2018)This paper studies the different opinions of linguists and their approaches to the category of diminutiveness in English. Based on Schneider’s work (2003), who distinguishes synthetic and analytic diminutives, an overview ... -
ЗА ЕКСПРЕСИВНИТЕ АЛОГИЗМИ В БЪЛГАРСКИТЕ И АНГЛИЙСКИТЕ ОБРАЗНИ СРАВНЕНИЯ (ФИЗИЧЕСКИ И ПСИХИЧЕСКИ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ НА ЛИЧНОСТТА)
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2011)This article discusses oxymoronic figurative comparisons (similes) consisting of a verb and an adjective as a base in two Indo-European languages sufficiently different in ontogenetic terms – Bulgarian and English. The ...