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ON THE QUESTION OF THE GENDER DEFECTIVITY OF THE SO CALLED COLLECTIVE NOUNS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The subject of the present paper is a group of nouns that denote a couple
consisting of a male and a female person. We question the correctness of the
term collective nouns, which sometimes is used for those nouns, and ...
MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF PAST PARTICIPLES (ANALOGUES OF BULGARIAN PARTICIPIAL MORPHEMES IN FRENCH, ENGLISH AND GERMAN)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The study aims to present and support a model for morpheme
segmentation of the Bulgarian past participles, compared to the morphological
structure of past participial forms in French, English and German. The
participles ...
A LOOK AT A POPULAR PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPERIMENT
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The aim of the following paper is to prove the existence of the connection
between sound (phoneme) and meaning. The hypothesis is supported by
Ramachandran and Hubbard’s experiment on “bouba“ and “kiki“ (2001) and ...
WORD FORMATION MODELS OF DEVERBAL NOUNS NOMINA PROFESSIONALIS IN TURKISH AND BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
With the development of the cognitive paradigm, as well as the
anthropocentric direction in modern linguistics, there is a tendency towards a
complex study of men. One of the aspects of this approach is the study of ...
TEXT AND IMAGE – BRUEGEL AND “METAMORPHOSES”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The purpose of this article is not to give specific answers, but to ask some
questions that refer to the relationship between literature and fine arts, between
Antiquity and the Renaissance. By looking at the two ...
OBSERVATIONS ON THE FUNCTIONING OF THE PERIPHERAL EVIDENTIAL MODIFIERS IN MODERN BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The present paper deals with the question of the existence of the
independent nuclear functional-semantic field “evidentiality” in Modern
Bulgarian. Attention is focused on its periphery, including the lexical and
syntactic ...
WHO ARE YOU?: ALICE ON A JOURNEY TO HER SELF
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The article explores Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll,
and more specifically how Alice seeks for her self in Wonderland. Two prisms
are combined for the purpose: Freud’s dream interpretation and ...
THE ROMANTIC FRAGMENT AND THE FRAGMENTARY MODE OF WRITING
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The article gives a brief overview of the origins of the fragment as a
literary and philosophical form from a historical and theoretical perspective. The
aim of the research is to highlight the historical turn of the ...
HETAERA ESMERALDA. THE DISEASE CIPHER IN “DOCTOR FAUSTUS“ (THOMAS MANN)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The present article deals with the function of the phrase Hetaera
esmeralda in the novel “Doctor Faustus“ by Thomas Mann. On the one hand, the
phrase is the name that the composer Adrian Leverkühn gives to the prostitute
who ...
PHOTOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITIES IN TWO EARLY NOVELS BY THOMAS HARDY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2022-05-20)
The present paper deals with two early novels by Thomas Hardy –
Desperate Remedies and, only peripherally, with A Pair of Blue Eyes – and
brings into focus his inclination to create verbal descriptions that display ...