Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 6 (2024) by Issue Date
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IN FIRST-PERSON, SINGULAR (AN OVERVIEW OF THE BULGARIAN EPIGRAPHS OF THE 12TH – 15TH CENTURIES)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The current paper focuses on who, why and how creates epigraphs that speak in first-person, singular. For this purpose, we analyzed 45 inscriptions, composed in Bulgarian and dated from the 12th–15th centuries. The ... -
TESTING THE LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE OF MODERN SPEAKERS OF THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE REGARDING THE PLURAL AND NUMERAL FORMS (QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper deals with the issue of the plural and the numeral form, more precisely with the extent to which modern speakers of Bulgarian handle these two forms correctly. It is divided into 2 parts – the first one gives ... -
ADAPTATION OF NEOLOGISMS TO THE BULGARIAN WORD FORMATION. NAMES OF FOODS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)New words (also called neologisms) enter the Bulgarian language under the influence of two processes: internationalization and nationalization. The first is expressed in increasing the international vocabulary, and the ... -
ADJECTIVIZATION LEVELS OF THE PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The study focuses on the adjectivization of present active participles in contemporary Bulgarian language, highlighting, firstly, the differences of the phenomenon with respect to the adjectivization of other participles ... -
ADAPTATION OF BIASPECTUAL VERBS ENDING IN -IRAM/-IZIRAM TO THE BULGARIAN VERB INFLECTION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The object of the present study is the process of adaptation of verbs of foreign origin into the Bulgarian language, with a focus on those ending in -iram or its extended variant -iziram, and their integration into the ... -
ON THE PARADIGM OF DIRECT EVIDENCE FORMS IN MODERN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper presents the full paradigm of direct evidence forms in the Modern Bulgarian language. The thesis being defended is that grammaticalized direct evidentiality is an example of a higher linguistic abstraction. It ... -
SEMANTIC VARIABILITY IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This paper examines the manifestation of semantic variability in the terminology of criminal procedural law. For this purpose, we use a method defined as experiential-axiological. It presents the legal term as a linguistic ... -
FALSE ANGLICISMS IN BULGARIAN YOUTH SLANG
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The aim of this paper is to analyze the formal and semantic aspects of false anglicisms used among Bulgarian youth employing Cristiano Furiassi's approach to pseudo-borrowings. The examination of the acquired data leads ... -
THE DYNAMICS IN CHILDREN’S VERBAL ASSOCIATIONS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper focuses on the dynamics in children’s word associations. For the purposes of the study, data from association experiments conducted in the 1990s and in 2022 are compared. On the basis of the analyses, an attempt ... -
PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS IN THE STANDARD BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The main goal of this text is to present a general overview of the development of the norm in the Bulgarian language and the tendency of pronunciation variants in oral speech to move from the sphere of standard to ... -
THE SPEAKER'S ASSESSMENT OF HIMSELF AND THE OTHERS (OBSERVATION ON FIRST-PERSON IN ONE TRANSPOSITION OF TENSE FORMS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The object of the current study is to present the Bulgarian future firstperson verb forms in the state of transposition of Future Tense instead of Present or Past Tense. Transposition finds a place in several research ... -
A FEW NOTES ON THE GENRE MODELS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF “THE GREAT TESTAMENT” BY FRANÇOIS VILLON
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)François Villon is a well-known poet from the Late Middle Ages and is often labeled as a forerunner of The Cursed Poets. His life is filled with wandering, crimes, stays in dungeons but also with residence in aristocratic ... -
ON THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING OF RELATIVE ANTERIORITY IN THE SPANISH INDICATIVE IN COMPARISON WITH BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The object of the present study is the Spanish grammeme cantara1 which functions with its etymological indicative meaning of relative anteriority in the Spanish verb paradigm. Тhe perception of cantara1 as a biparticiple ... -
THE THREE WITCHES AND MACBETH – THE GENESIS OF A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper explores the tragedy Macbeth through the concept of selffulfilling prophecy introduced by sociologist Robert Merton. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that the entire plot of the play is initiated and ... -
SPECIALISED TERMS IN THE LAW ON TOURISM OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)Our report is devoted to tourism terms – their definitions and characteristics presented in the Law on Tourism of the Russian Federation (Federal Law “On the Basis of Tourism Activities in the Russian Federation” of ... -
LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING SECONDARY SPEECH IN MODERN BULGARIAN AND ITALIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The object of our research is the FSF of commentability in the Bulgarian language, as well as the functional-semantic equivalents of the category in the Italian language. Special attention is paid to grammatic over-telling. ... -
ANALYTIC IMPERATIVE FORMS IN MODERN BULGARIAN AND THEIR FUNCTIONAL ANALOGUES IN ENGLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)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 ... -
NEGATIVE FORMS OF THE DUBITATIVE FOR FUTURE SIMPLE AND FUTURE IN THE PAST
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This paper discusses three hypotheses based on the choice between the four forms to express a negative dubitative semantics in Bulgarian. The first hypothesis examines the competition between two of these forms: nyamalo ... -
THE SPECIFICS OF SOME PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The paper explores three prepositional phrases selected according to the pattern preposition + noun + preposition. Such a structure is widely used in Bulgarian. The purpose of this paper is to trace the levels of abstraction ... -
MIMETIC DESIRE AND THE PROCESS OF CRYSTALLIZATION IN THE LETTER OF MADAME DE RENAL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)René Girard offers his own interpretation of love in fiction, building on familiar mimetic theories but adding his own element. Love becomes an object of study because the romantic myth of two lovers is decrystallized. ...