Verba iuvenium

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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) Ilieva, Velichka
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 research has three tasks: to indicate the probable “authors” of these inscriptions; to consider the reasons for writing them – what is “written about” and what is “done” in first-person, singular; to mark the individual motives transferred from one culture to another through the formulas and “cultural clichés” used in the texts. Also, a linguistic comment is made on word forms marking specific linguistic processes.
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) Boev, Nikolay
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 definitions of the plural and the numeral form, as well as the exceptions to the rule, and the second one presents and analyses the results of a pre-prepared survey and draws conclusions. The prepared questionnaire covers 255 respondents (we decided on this number in order to be as objective as possible when analyzing the results) from different age groups, with different types of education, and with different reasons for completing the questionnaire. The questionnaire contains 15 questions – 11 that test knowledge regarding the numeric and plural forms (7 multiple choices and 4 free response), as well as some exceptions to the rules and 4 that refer to the age of the respondents, their education, and the reason for completing the survey. The report discusses all the results in detail and draws conclusions about the general level of knowledge of the plural and numeral forms among modern native speakers of Bulgarian, as well as conclusions for each age group separately, for people with different types of education – primary, secondary, university, etc. and for respondents with philological education and respondents without such education.
ADJECTIVIZATION LEVELS OF THE PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Radilov, Samuil
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 and, secondly, the non-uniformity of the process conditioned by the specifics of the present active participle. The latter is evidenced by several Bulgarian dictionaries which appear to be key to the study insofar as the observation of the lexicographical material included substantiates the theses put forward. Particular attention is paid to the perspectives in the development of adjectivization as a process rivaling the tendency towards semi-predicative use of participles.
ADAPTATION OF NEOLOGISMS TO THE BULGARIAN WORD FORMATION. NAMES OF FOODS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Marinov, Stefan
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 second – in preserving the specifics of the language (domestication). It is the second one that is of interest for this research – how new words enter the Bulgarian language and by “how” we mean their adaptation to the already established linguistic paradigms. The study is narrowed down to the sphere in which informal speech usually prevails, because that is where we expect the most linguistic innovation – the home-related sphere and more specifically the names of foods that are used in it. The study was performed by monitoring 10 selected words in the following three sources: the Bulgarian PoS Annotated Corpus, Bulgarian National Reference Corpus (BNRC), and Google.
ADAPTATION OF BIASPECTUAL VERBS ENDING IN -IRAM/-IZIRAM TO THE BULGARIAN VERB INFLECTION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Mihaylov, Patrick
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 established paradigms of verb conjugation. These verbs are categorized as biaspectual, indicating that their aspectual form is variable and contingent upon the context of the sentence. As biaspectual verbs are an occurrence specific to the Slavic languages, the purpose of the current study is to analyze problems and inconsistencies within the process of adapting such verbs to the verb inflection of the Bulgarian language.
FALSE ANGLICISMS IN BULGARIAN YOUTH SLANG
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Todorova, Tanya
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 to the statement that five categories of pseudo-borrowing from English are represented in Bulgarian slang: autonomous derivatives, compound ellipses, clippings, semantic shifts and generic trademarks. Furthermore, the study focuses on the properties of blends built out of English and Bulgarian source words. The empirical data is excerpted from the open access slang dictionary BG jargon.
SEMANTIC VARIABILITY IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Draganov, Deyan
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 unit naming a concept that is conditioned by human experience and has a value orientation. Examples of polysemy, homonymy and ambisemy are given. The empirical material under investigation is drawn from both statutory acts and case law and legal doctrine.
THE DYNAMICS IN CHILDREN’S VERBAL ASSOCIATIONS
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Dobreva, Lachezara
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 is made to capture specific aspects of the dynamics in the lexicon of contemporary children in the context of changes in the public life.
THE SPEAKER'S ASSESSMENT OF HIMSELF AND THE OTHERS (OBSERVATION ON FIRST-PERSON IN ONE TRANSPOSITION OF TENSE FORMS)
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Marinova, Elitsa
The object of the current study is to present the Bulgarian future first-person verb forms in the state of transposition of Future Tense instead of Present or Past Tense. Transposition finds a place in several research works. It studies a variety of characteristics: readiness, opportunity, negative attitude, outrage, and resentment. Previous researchers’ studies cover only the matter of second – and third-person verb forms. The speaker as creator of the communicative act is always marked as positive and chooses linguistic combinations according to their subjective view. It may be assumed that the specific characteristic, which is the resentment, is transferred over another person, who is a participant, or who is not present in the communicative act.
ON THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING OF RELATIVE ANTERIORITY IN THE SPANISH INDICATIVE IN COMPARISON WITH BULGARIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Tabakova, Polina
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 grammeme in Spanish (with its invariant meaning of indicative relative anteriority) is argued. However, it also functions as a form “by compatibility” in the conjunctive paradigm (cantara2) where it modalizes and expresses a subjective situation, covering the three temporal relations (anteriority, simultaneity and posteriority). In terms of comparisson, the emphasis is on the lack of a similar grammeme in Bulgarian, considering some possible functional translation equivalents.
SPECIALISED TERMS IN THE LAW ON TOURISM OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Stoynova, Desislava
Our report is devoted to tourism terms – their definitions and characteristics presented in the Law on Tourism of the Russian Federation (Federal Law “On the Basis of Tourism Activities in the Russian Federation” of 24.11.1996 N 132-FZ in its current version after the changes of 19.12.2022). The Law is the main legislative document for the development of the industry in the Russian Federation and as such defines the principles of state policy aimed at creating a legal framework for a unified tourism market in Russia, contains the basic terminology of this sphere. The law itself has undergone numerous revisions, including with regard to the number of terms defined therein. There are 38 terms in the federal law, which are examined from the thematic, structural-vocabulary and etymological points of view.
LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING SECONDARY SPEECH IN MODERN BULGARIAN AND ITALIAN
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Boyadzhiev, Bozhidar
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. Our motivation to dwell on this topic is the fact that “the so-called restatement of the verb action is one of the most characteristic features of the Bulgarian language in relation to other Slavic languages and in relation to almost all Indo-European languages” (Gerdzhikov/Gerdzhikov 1984: 3).
ON THE PARADIGM OF DIRECT EVIDENCE FORMS IN MODERN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Stamenov, Vasil
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 is argued that the set of direct evidence grammatical formations should encompass not solely the indicative forms containing the morpheme -h-/-she-, but also the relative imperative forms of the type da pisheh, neka (da) pisheh, dano (da) pisheh, da byah pisal, neka (da) byah pisal, dano (da) byah pisal, da byah pisan, neka (da) byah pisan, dano da byah pisan among others, in addition to forms expressing an hypothetical condition (bih pisal among others).
ANALYTIC IMPERATIVE FORMS IN MODERN BULGARIAN AND THEIR FUNCTIONAL ANALOGUES IN ENGLISH
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Petrova, Denitsa
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 constructions and the different ways in which analytic imperative forms in Bulgarian are translated into English. Based on a comparative analysis between the two languages, it is concluded that the paradigm of the analytic imperative in Modern Bulgarian is considerably richer in formal attitude compared to the paradigm of the imperative in Modern English.
THE SPECIFICS OF SOME PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Dimitrova, Kristin
The paper explores three prepositional phrases selected according to the pattern preposition + noun + preposition. Such a structure is widely used in Bulgarian. The purpose of this paper is to trace the levels of abstraction of the noun in such prepositional constructions, using examples from two corpora – the Bulgarian National Corpus and the Bulgarian National Reference Corpus. Through the examined data, the study aims to demonstrate that the prepositions in the prepositional construction have a grammatical function while the meaning of the prepositional phrase mostly depends on the noun and its semantics. All three prepositional phrases are examined in detail, with each of them falling into a specific abstract domain depending on its usage, context and meaning.
NEGATIVE FORMS OF THE DUBITATIVE FOR FUTURE SIMPLE AND FUTURE IN THE PAST
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Androva, Diana
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 bil, ne shtyal bil. The second and the third hypotheses examine the uses of the forms nyamal bil, nyamalo bil. The study does not give a concrete answer to the question “which form is most commonly used to express a negative dubitative semantics”. As such we can conclude that the process of grammaticalization has not been completed yet.
PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS IN THE STANDARD BULGARIAN LANGUAGE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Koleva, Plamena
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 substandard and nonstandard. Colloquial examples with high prevalence in recent years are considered.
MIMETIC DESIRE AND THE PROCESS OF CRYSTALLIZATION IN THE LETTER OF MADAME DE RENAL
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Georgieva, Kristina
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. A mimetic triangle is formed, which is composed of a love object, a subject and a mediator. The subject is the actor who is subject to external or internal influences. These influences arise from the clash between the subject, the mediator and the desire to emulate the mediator in order to reach the object of love. The mediator's role is specific because it generates and reinforces the subject's desire for the object. Desire is mediated. At the heart of the novel, Stendhal posits another idea of his, namely that of the process of crystallization, which consists in attributing perfections to the object of desire. Thus, there is an interweaving of the two theories and the entry of mimetic desire into the field of crystallization. A conflict arises between the two female characters who struggle for Julien Sorel's heart, subject not so much to jealousy as to mimetic rivalry.
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) Grozdanova, Aleksandra
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: Homunculus as an artificial creature – emanation of the scientific experiment, and as holder of the spark, which gives life and is aimed at the eternal beyond. The text pays particular attention to the figure of Mephisto, who is strongly associated with the creation of the Homunculus, as well as to the figure of Galatea, who helps the artificial creature to “reborn” for a new life. Some other key figures compared to that of the Homunculus are those of Wagner, Faust and Euphorion. In addition, the present research traces the integration of some conceptions and ideas from several different eras – from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment to Romanticism, and all that through the figure of the Homunculus.
“THE WONDERS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE” – A SALVATION FOR “THE NAIVE CHILDREN”: MOTIF IN GERMAN COLONIAL LITERATURE
(Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Grigoryan, Gabriela
This paper gives an overview of the most common motives in German colonial literature. Colonial literature is often understood to mean all literature from the colonial period. In this analysis, however, a distinction is made between pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial works. Two works are analyzed in detail – Von Jenseits des Meeres by Theodor Storm, a novel from the precolonial period of Germany, and Tropenkoller by Frieda von Bülow, who is a typical representative of German colonial literature. The focus of this paper is to show how the colonised population is portrayed in a racist manner and entirely from a Eurocentric point of view.

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