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 ...

The subject of this article is the asymmetry between the preteritе microfields in present-day Czech and Bulgarian. The object of research is to be found in the Czech active preteritе forms and their Bulgarian functional ...

The present article is focused on some Balkan Turkish toponymes originating from the substrate Greek and Bulgarian toponymy. The accent is put on the geographical distribution of the early Turkish oykonimes – these from ...

The present report focuses on the specificity of publicistic text and the related difficulties that the translator faces during the process of translation from Russian into Bulgarian. These are my observations regarding ...

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 ...

This paper presents Bulgarian and Croatian idioms as cultural signs. The main goal is to detect cultural and national connotation of idioms. This research is primarily an analysis of idioms containing cultureme (the culture ...

In Serbian the expansion of perfectum as a main narrative tense is more than obvious, especially if its usage is compared to the limited functions of the simple preterites – aorist and imperfect (in Bulgarian the situation ...

The object of analysis is one of the components of temporality – temporal adverbs. The core morphological category of tense in the field of temporality is considered as a relation of three types – action before, during and ...

The article offers a preliminary model for the comparative study of the type (model, abstract) word formation paradigms of adjectives, which takes into account the lexical class of word formation base and its derivative ...

The paper discusses issues in the area of the syntax of the complex sentence which emerge in the process of teaching Bulgarian at Russian universities. A major problem arises from the difference between the typologies of ...