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The article discusses the speech in town of Bansko. It gave some historical information about the speech and very short characteristic of this speech. It’s very interesting because Bansko is on the border of east and west Bulgarian speech. It deals with traditional livestock vocabulary. It also deals with some morphological and syntactical aspect.
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The purpose of this study is to develop psychoanalytic mechanism of the act of separation of the individual and formation of the Doppelganger. The study uses Freud’s concept of splitting of the ego as it is related to the concepts of introjection and projection. Тhe analysis of the story of Edgar Allan Poe „William Wilson” presents a theoretical model of the function and image of the Doppelganger.
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This report compares the presentation of the case system of the Old Bulgarian language in „Altbulgarische Grammatik” by Rudolph Aitzetmüller and „Grammatik der altbulgarischen Sprache” by August Leskien. It focuses on the category of the noun, the way of arrangement of the case system, as well as the lexical and graphical presentation of the studied data. The conclusions drawn from this research help the development of the study of the Old Bulgarian language grammar in the XX century.
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Private letters belong to most interesting materials, as far as their language is concerned. This book presents an insight into contemporary methodological approaches to a linguistic treatment of these materials.
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This paper introduces a new corpus resource for teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and for carrying out research into advanced student writing across a range of academic disciplines: MICUSP, the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers. It exemplifies how MICUSP can be used as a source of materials in the context of data-driven learning in the EAP classroom. The paper also presents selected results from two MICUSP based studies: an analysis of attended and unattended this and a study of the distribution of common phraseological items across student papers. It is argued that these results are of pedagogical relevance and can contribute to an improvement in EAP teaching.
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This corpus-based study compares the lexical patterns of three English light verbs, make, give and take, in native and non- native student writing. Since these verbs are highly polysemous and form a large number of collocations, they pose problems for foreign language learners. The frequency and variety of collocations with light verbs are examined in the Greek Corpus of Learner English (GRICLE), and in the native corpora LOCNESS and PELCRA. Collocations with take and give feature more frequently in GRICLE than in the native corpora. Give was found to enter into more combinations in the Greek corpus, whereas both make and take are used in a larger variety of collocations in the native corpora. The contribution of these findings to language teaching is discussed.
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The language contact in Andean region introduced into local Spanish some phenomena nonexistent in standard Spanish. One of the grammatical categories in regional native languages that found their place in Andean Spanish is the evidentiality. The aim of this paper is to analyse some expressions and constructions present in Andean Spanish that have evidential meanings, namely some forms of the verb decir (“say”), the pluperfect, and the synthetic future. Their use is exemplified and put in correlation with functionally similar forms in Quechua. An attempt is made to determine their origin and whether they are grammatical evidentials or just evidential extensions of other categories. In particular, a special attention to an explanation of the basic concepts relevant to evidentiality has been paid in the introductory section. In conclusion, a grammaticalised particle (dice, dizque, “says”) was introduced in Andean Spanish, and the verbal system of Spanish was restructured in order to permit grammatical evidentiality marking; this has occurred as a result of transference from native languages.
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In many regions of the Russian Federation as well as in the Republic of Tatarstan we can witness the situation when the education is conducted using one language and at home the communication is performed using another language. Bilingualism in modern Russia is a wide spread phenomena. Bilingual people are people who can communicate in two or more languages in different environments both monolingual and bilingual in accordance with their sociocultural needs. Bilinguality is closely connected with the phenomena of double nature of cultural sensitivity. Peculiarities of the second language education have always been a topic of deep interest for a lot of scientists. Therefore a special branch closely connected to psycholinguistics appeared. The following article studies the questions connected with the problems which arise when bilingual students take Unified National Exam in the Russian language. The exam checks the following competencies of students: linguistic proficiency (system of the language, main language terms), language proficiency (main language rules), communicative proficiency (speech skills). Experience has proven that bilingual students show lack of such competencies. The research gives classification of the most wide spread mistakes students make when Russian is not their mother language. The basis for the research is represented by the written works of the students whose native language is Tartar. We analyze test tasks (with the possibility to choose the answer), compositions where students were supposed to show their skill to point out one of the problems mentioned by the author in the source text, to comment on this problem, to formulate the author’s position, to express their own point of view, to give arguments on their point of view and to make conclusions. We use method of comparative analysis of unrelated languages. Special attention is paid to the peculiarities of bilingual children teaching in the Russian environment. We have pointed out several recommendations for teaching of the Russian language in bilingual classes aiming to eliminate the mistakes pointed out in the article.
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Phrases and their syntactic meanings in Old Russian were very different from contemporary language. In the course of the historical development there were shifts of meaning of some cases. These changes were caused the attempt of the language to express certain relations in a more accurate way. Expressing of certain meanings by simple, non-prepositional cases was gradually reduced; simple cases were replaced by prepositional cases. Semantic meaning which is expressed in contemporary Russian by means of the genitive constructions represents a very varied and complex subject. Historical study of genitive form´s use enables us to hypothesise their original semantics.
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The paper deals with the debatable point of modern linguistics – the predicatives which express the state in the broad sense and are using exclusively as a predicate in a non-subject sentences. The author considers the specifics of such words on the material of youth slang. In the spotlight are the lexical, morphemic, morphological and syntactic features of the analyzed category of words.
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The article examines the translation of cultural elements and changes that occur from language to language, from one culture to another. We will study strategies used by authors for translating cultural elements, in the hope of identifying the ideal strategy. In this presentation, we will refer to the cultureme as a unit of cultural information. To illustrate the aspects of cultureme and determine the context and circumstances for choosing an option of translation instead of another, we will examine « La Nuit Sacrée », the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published in 1987, and of the two Arabic translations of this book, done in Egypt in 1988 and in 1993.
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In the everyday world of the 21st century, knowledge explosion and information expansion are taking place: the average person has never been confronted with so much specialized content, and society has never been so strongly influenced by technical innovations and digitalization. Kirsten Adamzik speaks about a "scientification of society or the influence of technical languages on the common language." This paper aims at investigating linguistic expressions that help communicate specialized knowledge to a broad heterogeneous audience. To illustrate this, journalistic texts from ADZ für Rumänien are used, which offer information about the vaccination campaign against coronavirus and present it in an understandable way. The theoretical basis of the work consists of the principles of comprehensible technical communication, and the analysis focuses on morpho-syntactic, lexical and pragmalinguistic level.
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Numerous linguistic researches have confirmed the dependence of the use of language structures on the communication situation and the text types. Individual language structures may have different meanings and communication functions in different text types based on their semantic potential. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the frequency and communication functions of the construction [sich lassen + Infinitive] in the text types report and commentary on the corpus of political reporting texts in selected German daily newspapers.
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The report presents the results of the work on creating of a research corpus of structurografically processed complex mixed sentences. The purpose of the created corpus is to compare the primary sketch, structure diagram and acoustic image of 500 complex mixed sentences. An analysis of 200 new sentences is also presented. The medium for statistical analysis of data - IBM SPSS Statistics v.19, has been used for the statistical processing of the data obtained from configuration syntactic analysis. In this way new information and new conclusions about the proportions in the sentence structure are being reached. It has been proven that the data obtained from each sample are valid for the whole work. An excerpt of 100 sentences from the novel “The Farm at the Border” by Yordan Yovkov and an excerpt of 100 sentences from the novel “Noah’s Ark” by Yordan Radichkov have been considered. The article also examines the quantitative distribution of the subordinate clauses in both novels in comparison with the data from a previous study of the novel “Antichrist” by Emilian Stanev. In conclusion, an algorithmic model and its operation have been presented, the knowledge of which gives way towards new evidence of the structural potential of the modern Bulgarian language.
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The research is focused on comparison of the prosodic characteristics of simple sentences (positive statements) in Bulgarian. The main goal is to compare the prosodic features of positive statements focusing on the prosodic grouping. The experimental protocol consists of processing the sentences, gathered in a corpus for the aims of the project “Rhythm and Intonation in Bulgarian Sentences” (МУ21-ФлФ-013) with Speech Anlyzer 3.1 and analysis of their melodic graphs and spectrograms with focus on the prosodic grouping of the phrases.
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English word-order performs a variety of functions: some of these have received considerable attention while others have remained relatively underexplored. The dominant function of word-order in English is to signal the syntactic function of an element through its position in the sentence. Consequently, the linear arrangement of clause constituents is much less variable than in Czech, for example, where the signalling role is performed by inflections. Nevertheless, even the English word-order is not absolutely rigid. Deviations from the canonical word-order may be motivated by factors such as the functional sentence perspective, the relative length and structural complexity of the respective clause constituent, as well as by the need to achieve cohesion of the text. This paper looks at deviations from the grammatical word-order which might be motivated by the need to avoid potential ambiguity, i.e. at cases where a more usual ordering of clause constituents is open to more than one interpretation. Most attention is given to potential ambiguities of scope occurring in newspaper discourse.
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A brief overview of the Arabic conditionals with an accent on the role and the meaning of the particles that introduce conditions or hypotheses, on the one hand, and consequences, on the other. The role of the verb forms and their relationship to the governing particles is also touched on.
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The vocative is a largely understudied linguistic phenomenon. This text examines the implications of treating the vocative as a case value and of not treating it as such in languages with a neutral alignment of case marking of full noun phrases. Special attention is given to such languages lacking (overt) case (marking), barring, supposedly, (marking for) the vocative. The text argues in favour of employing a principled treatment of the vocative that affords sufficient room for typological generalisation while remaining faithful to language data.
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Idioms are defined as multi-component, complex, solid lexical connections. Without insight into the different understanding and other categorical features of idioms, their multi-component nature is the starting point of almost all phraseologists. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, we can say that the composition of idioms is motivated by the conceptual metaphor MORE IS BETTER, i.e. MORE WORDS ARE MORE CONTENT – so that idioms must naturally be defined within the framework of spatial resolution since the meaning is expressed by at least two lexical words. In a linear sense, they take up more space than linguistic units indicating primary nomination. On the other hand, SMS, as one of the forms of computer-mediated communication, has its own spatial limitations, which means that the influence of the formal limitations of the SMS should be assumed first of all on the appearance in general and on the frequency of idioms, but the probability that such limitations can be taken into account have an influence on the composition of idioms and the possibility that variants of idioms appear within SMS messages. In this paper, we generally deal with the relationship between idiom groups and SMS in the first SMS corpus of the Bosnian language.
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The article reviews the expression of possessors with nouns referring to entities that may satisfy the requirements of frame elements which are part of the semantic frames in FrameNet. The frame elements realised with the main verbs for transfer of possession in a limited number of corpus examples are considered. Apart from the frame element (referring to the object of the transfer) and the two entities between which/whom the transfer of possession takes place, non-core frame elements are also explicitly realised. The sets of appropriate nouns and their features are defined based on the realisation of the frame elements in the corpus examples.
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