Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 6 (2024) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (A CHARACTER STUDY ON IVANKA RUMENOVA FROM DIMITAR TALEV’S NOVEL „THE BELLS OF PRESPA“)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This study delves into the intricacies of one key character, Ivanka Rumenova, in the novel “The Bells of Prespa.” Emphasis is placed on her distinctive traits, revealing socio-psychological and ideological nuances. The ... -
DEATH AND EROTISM IN THE SHORT STORY “THE CRIMSON CURTAIN” BY D'AUREVILLY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The current paper aims to make an analysis of the death-erotism line in the short story “The Crimson Curtain” by Barbey d'Aurevilly, which is situated in two perspectives. Firstly, in the figure of the main character, ... -
THE DEMONIC PRESENCE IN KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOV'S “SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)This paper focuses on Konstantin Konstantinov’s short story – “Seven o’clock in the morning”, published for the first time in the homonymous collection from 1940. The paper’s subjects are the demonic outlook of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
THE FIGURE OF THE HOMUNCULUS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT LABORATORY: FAILED EXPERIMENT OR EMBODIMENT OF THE ETERNAL STRIVE TO BE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The present paper examines the figure of the Homunculus and its literal and allegorical perceptions in the famous Goethe's tragedy “Faust”. In general, it focuses on two of the most important interpretations of the figure: ... -
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 ... -
„JUST ONE MORE WALTZ WITH YOU“ – MUSICAL REFERENCES IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S NOVEL “THE GREAT GATSBY”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The musical layer embedded in some of the works of the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald has attracted the curiosity of scholars and has been a central object of research since the second half of the 20th century. This ... -
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. ... -
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. ... -
THE MONOMANIA OF A MOON FOR FREEDOM. ALBERT CAMUS, “CALIGULA” [4.14]
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The text focuses on the last scene of the fourth act of the play “Caligula” (1944) by Albert Camus, whose aim is to function as an example through which to introduce the discourse of absurdism insisted upon by Camus, 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 NOVEL „BLOOD“ – BETWEEN THE IDEOLOGICAL ROTTENNESS AND HUMANISM
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17)The main aim of the current study is to follow the critical reviews of Konstantin Konstantinov’s novel “Blood” during the 1930s. Due to the dramatic political events taking place throughout the decade in Bulgaria 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 ... -
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 ...