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Цветообозначения в устойчивых сочетаниях со значением благопожелания и проклятия в балканославянских языках в сопоставлении с албанским и румынским
Color Terms in the Idioms with the Meaning of Blessing and Curse in Balkan Languages

Author(s): Alexandra Chivarzina
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Semantics, Computational linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Phraseology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: color terms; blessing; curse; Balkan languages; traditional folk culture

Summary/Abstract: The peoples living in the Balkans significantly have been influencing each other, borrowing numerous cultural and linguistic phenomena. In the course of convergent development it determined the formation of the Balkan cultural and linguistic landscape. The idioms with the meaning of blessing and curse in the Balkan Slavic languages in comparison with the non-Slavic Albanian and Romanian ones are in the centre of the analysis. The correspondences demonstrate a high degree of interlingual and intercultural interaction of the neighboring peoples, although there are significant differences in the forms of the corresponding idioms in different Balkan languages.

  • Issue Year: 61/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 271-279
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian