Browsing Verba iuvenium, Issue 2 (2020) by Issue Date
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NONRESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN THE 19TH CENTURY SERBIAN LEGAL TEXTS (PRELIMINARY RESEARCH)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)In this paper we examine the status of nonrestrictive relative clauses within a limited corpus of administrative and legal texts from the 19th century. We determine the conditions that contribute to the nonrestrictive status ... -
THE GRAMMEME RESULTATIVENESS AND THE PERFECTIVE ASPECT IN BULGARIAN AND THEIR GRAMMATICAL AND FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC EQUIVALENTS IN ENGLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The object of the present comparative research are the grammeme resultativeness and the perfective aspect in Bulgarian and their grammatical and functional-semantic equivalents in English. The goal of the study is ... -
ON THE SUBJECT OF ROOT MODIFIERS IN THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF PERSON IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN. THE RELATION BETWEEN PERSON AND EVIDENTIALITY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The article reveals different understandings of the language means that function in the core of the functional-semantic field of person in Bulgarian. The article espouses a credible explanation for the presence of ... -
PHRASEOLOGICAL PERIPHERAL MODIFIERS FOR THE EXPRESSION OF COMPARATIVITY IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(2020-10-20)The article examines the phraseological peripheral modifiers in the functional-semantic field of comparativity in contemporary Bulgarian. The approach to linguistic facts is consistent with the achievements of the ... -
POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS AS MODIFIERS OF THE PERIPHERY IN THE FIELD OF PERSONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY
(2020-10-20)We examine possessive pronouns as modifiers of the periphery in the functional-semantic field of Personality in contemporary Bulgarian, English, and Spanish. Among the three examined languages, English is the only ... -
SOME CASES OF SYSTEM RELATIONS IN THE BULGARIAN GRAMМATICAL FORMANTS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The following paper attempts to present some cases of homonymy and synonymy (rarely antonymy and paronymy) in the field of Bulgarian grammatical formants. The aim of this study is to explain these grammatical occurrences ... -
ON THE WORD ORDER AND INTONATIONAL FEATURES OF BULGARIAN QUESTIONS WITH WH-WORDS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The research deals with some intonational and word order features of Bulgarian wh-questions. More specifically, it addresses the problem of the clitic doubling of the object position and its functional and prosodic ch ... -
TYPOLOGY OF THE BILINGUAL PHRASEBOOKS OF THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)This article addresses a currently popular and unexplored topic in Bulgarian linguistics related to the bilingual phrasebooks in the 19th century. The paper deals with bilingual phrasebooks from the third quarter of the ... -
FANNY AND SUWELO: SHADES OF LOVE IN ALICE WALKER’S “THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)In the 1980s, African American literature and culture reached new heights. Many women authors composed masterpieces and received a lot of critical attention and acclaim. Alice Walker had already unsettled and divided the ... -
UNRIGHTEOUS RIGHTEOUS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE POLISH DISCOURSE OF SAVING THE JEWS DURING WORLD WAR II IN THE MOVIE “IN DARKNESS“ (2011)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The aim of the text is to analyze the Polish movie “In Darkness” with regards to the figure of the Righteous Pole saving Jews during the Nazi occupation in Poland. The article first outlines the discourse practices ... -
NIKOLA VLADIKIN BETWEEN MARGINALITY AND OBLIVION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The article presents the life, the public activity and the works of Nikola Vladikin, a not well-known figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. A Bulgarian journalist, a writer and a historian, he was a witness to the ... -
THE REVERSED LOVE TRIANGLE IN ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT`S PLAY “ENIGMATIC VARIATIONS”
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)This paper offers a possible interpretation of the way a love triangle can be flipped upside down, as demonstrated by Eric Schmitt in his play “Enigmatic Variations”. He shows us the two sides of love: eros and ... -
NONCANNONICAL CHARM. IVAN TEOFILOVʼS POETRY IN THE 1960s
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The text traces the appearance of Ivan Teofiov on the Bulgarian literary scene and the current take of his first poem collections – Heaven and All Stars (1963) and Amphitheater (1968). The study examines the poetic work ... -
DO ALL MERMAIDS HAVE TAILS? (“INFORMATION DISTORTION” OF CULTURE-SPECIFIC MYTHONYMS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)This work explores the twists in the meaning of the culture-specific mythonyms jiaoren, meirenyu, fenghuang and rusalka in the Chinese and Russian worldview. The work compares the representation of mythonyms in modern ... -
FORMS OF INITIATION IN THE BOOK “THE LONELY WINDMILLS” BY STANISLAV STRATIEV
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The article examines the ways of initiation in the book “The Lonely Windmills” by Stanislav Startiev. In his early works, children enter the world of the grown-ups in various ways. The meeting between the world of ... -
THE IMAGE OF NARCISSUS IN THE POETRY OF VYACHESLAV I. IVANOV AND KONSTANTIN D. BALMONT
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)This research traces out some specifics of the perception of the image of Narcissus in the culture of the Silver Age as presented in the poetry of Vyacheslav I. Ivanov and Konstantin D. Balmont. The concept of beauty ... -
CELTIC BORROWINGS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)In the course of its existence English was brought into contact with at least three other languages, the languages of the Celts, the Romans, and the Scandinavians. As a result of these contacts certain linguistic features ... -
TURKISH NOUNS DENOTING PEOPLE, FORMED FROM THE NAMES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND THE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THEM (BASED ON MATERIAL FROM THE TURKISH LANGUAGE)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)The end of the XX and the beginning of the XXI century is a period in which the development of humanities, including linguistics, results in a new, anthropocentric paradigm. This has led to the emergence of numerous ... -
STYLISTIC AND PRAGMATIC SPECIFICITIES OF COGNITIVE METAPHORS IN BULGARIAN POLITICAL SPEECHES FROM THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)In this article, some stylistic and pragmatic aspects of cognitive metaphors in the speeches of renowned Bulgarian politicians from the end of the 19th century are discussed. The objects of analysis are the parliamenta ... -
ISMAIL B. AĞLAGÜL’S INTERPRETATIONS FOR RENDERING BULGARIAN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS INTO TURKISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2020-10-20)Phraseology is a collection of phraseological expressions in a language. This report aims to compare and analyze the peculiarities of the use of phraseological units in their respective translation from Bulgarian ...