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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The current study focuses on the analytic imperative forms in Modern Bulgarian and their functional analogues in Modern English. The main reason for choosing this topic is related to the variety of imperative forms and ...