Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 1 (2019) by Issue Date
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COMPETITION OF DIALECT MODELS DURING THE BULGARIAN RENAISSANCE (PRELIMINARY STUDIES AND A WORKING HYPOTHESIS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The incorporation and competition of dialect models during the Bulgarian Renaissance can be explained both with a number of extra-linguistic peculiarities and with deliberately enforced norms, which were probably motivated ... -
SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEGREE OF COMPARISON IN BULGARIAN AND MODERN GREEK
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The study examines the category of degrees of comparison in Bulgarian and Modern Greek. The dominant linguistic views on the category of degrees of comparison have been presented and discussed. A major difference ... -
LANGUAGE “ARCHEOLOGY” OF SOME LEXICAL GROUPS IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The aim of this paper is to observe some lexical groups in contemporary Bulgarian in whose roots traces of Old Bulgarian are found. The article suggests a classification of the excerpted words by phonetical, lexicological ... -
ABOUT THE LEXICOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF NOUN COMPOUNDS IN BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)It can be said that the vocabulary in almost every language is collected and systematized in different linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries. The focus of this article is on complex lexemes (and specifically, on noun ... -
COMPARISONS WITH ANIMALS IN THE WORKS OF THE SOFIA LITERARY SCHOOL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The following report focuses on a topic which has not been studied yet. We examine comparisons with animals used in the original works of three authors, representatives of the Sofia Literary School. We analyze the ... -
DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OF THE BULGARIAN RENAISSANCE PHRASEBOOKS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article addresses a current and unexplored topic in Bulgarian linguistics, related to bilingual colloquialists in the 19th century. The article deals with 11 phrasebooks from the Bulgarian Renaissance era. An attempt ... -
A FEW CHALLENGES TO NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS PRESENTED BY THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF PERSONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)While learning Bulgarian as a Foreign Language, students meet diverse challenges. In the present article, we examine a few of the main challenges offered by the functional-semantic field of Personality. To do so we rely ... -
ON SOME PROBLEMS OF WH-QUESTIONS IN BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The research is focused on the different functions of the Bulgarian whwords koy and kakvo, namely cases in which they function as an adjective and cases in which they function as a noun. The theoretical base of the research ... -
COGNITIVE METAPHORS AS A MEANS FOR LANGUAGE DEMAGOGY IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN POLITICAL SPEECHES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)Cognitive political metaphorology combines together the traditional scientific potential of the old rhetoric and new hyperdynamic linguistic constructs, which are an adequate reflection of the fast-developing society. ... -
THE ISSUE OF THE LEXICAL CONCEPT IN LINGUISTIC LITERATURE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article discusses the different definitions of the term CONCEPT in Russian and American linguistic literature. Presented are the scientific opinions of the Russian linguists Sternin and Popova on the structure and ... -
PEOPLE-DENOTING NOUS IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WITH TURKISH DERIVATIONAL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)In linguistics, it is a commonly accepted fact that world languages are not isolated from one another. People communicate with each other and establish historical, religious, political and economic ties. As a result of ... -
DOES GRAMMATICAL GENDER HAVE SEMANTICS? (OBSERVATIONS ON THE GENDER CATEGORY OF NOUNS IN BULGARIAN)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The present paper deals with the semantics of the lexical-grammatical category of gender in contemporary Bulgarian: the only issue related to that category, which scientists have certain disagreements about. We ... -
ON A SPECIFIC TYPE OF ANAPHORA IN BULGARIAN. AN APPLICATION OF EXISTING TYPOLOGIES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The paper attempts to present an adaptation of the existing typology of associative anaphora. The chosen model is based on a scheme that has already been used in a previous annotation project and whose validity has been ... -
GRAMMATICAL AND FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC EQUIVALENTS OF THE BULGARIAN VERBAL ASPECTS IN MODERN GREEK
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The object of the present comparative research are the grammatical and functional-semantic equivalents of the Bulgarian verbal aspects in Modern Greek. The goal of the study is to identify the acts of inter-language ... -
MYTHOLOGICAL REFERENCES AND ARCHETYPES IN “A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The present paper is inspired by one of the most beloved and famous plays in modern culture, “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947), written by the American playwright Tennessee Williams. The problem set to be analyzed focuses ... -
“HOW TO PREVENT WAR“ – THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND SNAKES (BASED ON THE WORKS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This paper provides an examination of the relationship between theory and practice. It is based on Virginia Woolf’s theoretical views explicated in two of her essays: “A Room of One's Own” (1929) and its companion piece – ... -
PHILOSOPHICAL AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF THE TERM SPACE (IN BULGARIAN AND RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article focuses on the essence of the concept of space, which is considered in a philosophical and linguistic aspect. A detailed review of the research on this issue in Russian and Bulgarian scientific literature is ... -
BJØRNSON'S SHORT NOVEL „SYNNØVE SOLBAKKEN“ AND ITS TWO BULGARIAN TRANSLATIONS: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This article focusеs on some special linguistic features of two different Bulgarian translations of Bjørnson's short novel “Synnøve Solbakken”. The first translation is based on a German version, while the second one – on ... -
THE BULGARIAN IMPERATIVE DA-CONSTRUCTIONS AND THEIR TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS IN ITALIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)The object of analysis is the Bulgarian da-imperative constructions and their functional equivalents in modern Italian. The paper present a brief overview of the previous research conducted by Bulgarian linguists on the ... -
REFLECTIONS ON THE CONDITIONAL VERBAL FORMS IN BULGARIAN AND SPANISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2019-05-31)This study presents reflections on the category of mood in Bulgarian and Spanish. The essence of the Conditional in Bulgarian is discussed, with a particular emphasis on analytical conditional forms. We conclude that ...