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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 ...