Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 8 (2026) by Issue Date
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WHAT IS ТЕМЕЛНѤ, OR WAYS OF MEASURING AND INDICATING TIME IN OLD BULGARIAN EPIGRAPHS (XII–XV C.)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The report examines the ways of measuring and marking time in epigraphic monuments composed in Old Bulgarian and dated from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The study includes both entire periods and specified dates – days, ... -
TRANSCRIPTION OF REDUCED VOWELS IN THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE USING THE SYMBOLS OF THE IPA (INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)Vowel reduction is a striking and important feature of Bulgarian pronunciation. This study examines the unstressed allophonic realizations of the broad vowels a and o and the symbols for their transcription from the ... -
LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR CREATING REALITY – LINGUOCULTURAL AND NEUROLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROBLEM
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The current paper examines human language through the lens of two interdis-ciplinary science fields: linguoculturology and neurolinguistics. Firstly, we looked into the various ways the language is embedded in the culture, ... -
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE USE OF VOCATIVE FORMS IN BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study analyzes the historical development and contemporary usage of vocative case in Bulgarian – the only grammatical category which survived after the loss of the other case forms. The analysis traces the evolution ... -
BULGARIAN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS ABOUT HARD-WORKING AND LAZY PEOPLE (STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND USAGE)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This text examines Bulgarian phraseologisms characterizing two typical human qualities – work capacity and laziness – from the perspective of their structural features and usage. In terms of structural characteristics, ... -
THE SUBSTITUTION OF THE PREPOSITION “U” WITH THE PREPOSITION “V”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study investigates the extent to which, and the contexts in which the preposition v (“in, at”) has begun to replace the preposition u (“in, at”). To this end, a semantic analysis of the preposition u is followed by a ... -
HOW “CUNNING” ARE THE BULGARIAN AND THE GERMAN FOX? (OBSERVATIONS THROUGH THE PRISM OF BULGARIAN AND GERMAN PHRASEOLOGISMS FROM THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF CUNNING – DECEPTION)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)Languages are a projection of the mentality of their users. Over the course of time, languages have developed alongside people’s way of thinking, reflecting humanattitudes, needs, worldview, and self-perception. This study ... -
MODELS OF COMPLEMENTATION WITH SPEECH-CAUSATIVE PREDICATES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study examines the choice of complementizers with speech-causative predicates in Bulgarian, focusing specifically on the verb kaža (“say”) as a representative of information-transmitting verbs. An online survey of 127 ... -
THE LANGUAGE OF THE INTERNET FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN LINGUISTIC STUDIES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The paper traces the development of the Internet as a communicative space and examines language use in an online environment. From a review perspective, it presents Bulgarian linguistic studies that outline the typologies ... -
LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE SEMANTICS OF THE COLORS WHITE, RED AND BLACK IN BULGARIAN AND CHINESE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The main goal of the study is to establish the differences and similarities in how the colors white, black and red are perceived in the two languages and cultures. For this purpose, the paper sets several tasks: to apply ... -
THE MULTIPLICITY OF PERSONALITY FROM THE DEPTHS OF MALONEʼS SOUL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The present paper examines the theme of the complex mental structure of the self in Samuel Beckett’s work “Malone Dies”. The main spectrum of references at the core of the text is situated in the works of Schildler, Fischer, ... -
A STRUCTURAL MODELING ATTEMPT OF THE GREEK TEMPORAL SYSTEM IN COMPARISON WITH THE BULGARIAN ONE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The present study undertakes a comparative analysis of the Greek and the Bulgarian temporal systems using structural models. The goal is to prove that the temporal systems in compared languages have more similarities than ... -
EXPRESSING NON-RELIABILITY BEYOND THE DUBITATIVE PARADIGM IN THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study examines the uses of certain renarrative and conclusive forms in the Bulgarian online corpus CLASSLA-web.bg 1.0. The hypothesis is that these forms, in specific contexts and with particular surrounding markers, ... -
SYNTACTIC REALIZATIONS OF THE GERUND AND ITS MODIFIERS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The object of the current study aims to present the dual nature of the gerund and the functional classification of its modifiers. Special attention is given to the peculiarities of the gerund form from a lexical, morphological ... -
THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF WORDS: LANGUAGE AS OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN R. F. KUANG’S “BABEL”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This article examines R. F. Kuang’s “Babel: An Arcane History” through the lens of the “dark academia” genre, arguing that the novel reconfigures its traditional fascination with elite knowledge into a sharp anti-colonial ... -
IDIOMS WITH “GÖZ” (EYE) AS A REFLECTION OF SOCIAL ATTITUDES IN TURKISH SOCIETY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study analyzes idioms containing the lexeme “göz” (“eye”) in the Turkish language as carriers of social attitudes and cultural values. The research examines how these fixed expressions reflect concepts such as control, ... -
ON THE QUESTION OF THE LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC LINGUISTIC MEANS OF THE BULGARIAN CONCLUSIVE IN COMPARISON WITH MODERN ITALIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The object of this study are the lexical and syntactic modifiers in the functional-semantic periphery of conclusivity in modern Bulgarian and their analogues in Italian. The objectives of the study are to provide a brief ... -
AUTOMATIC WRITING AS LINGUISTIC REBELLION: THE LINGUISTIC REALIZATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This article tracksthe development of automatism by comparing the canonical Les Champs magnétiques by André Breton and Philippe Soupault with Remedios Varo’s automatic works. The automatic effect of Les Champs magnétiquesis ... -
THE MISSING RIBBON: LOTTE QUOTES “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)The article deals with the general theme of quotation in Thomas Mann’s work. It briefly presents the concept of “life as quotation” from the official speech the author gave on the occasion of Sigmund Freud’s eightieth ... -
HYPERBOLE FROM A PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE (BASED ON THE WORKS OF A. MATVEEVA)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2026-05-21)This study examines meaning and mechanisms of hyperbolization from a communicative-pragmatic perspective, focusing on how they serve to realize the speaker’s intentions in constructing the pragmatic framework of the ...