‘One Day in Slovak, Another Day in Bulgarian’: Aspects of the Familial Upbringing of Children of Bulgarian-Mixed Origin

Author(s): Tanya Matanova / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2016

This paper addresses the specific situations faced by children of interethnic families relating to the ethnocultural, linguistic, and religious upbringing by their parents. The study focuses on persons born into Bulgarian-Russian, Bulgarian-Ukrainian, Bulgarian-Austrian, Bulgarian-Slovak, and Bulgarian-German families which reside in either Bulgaria or other European countries. An individual’s ethnocultural education is considered a part of the process of enculturation and socialization that occurs in the first few years of his or her life. In interethnic families, there are three cultural models that parents use to transmit their ethnic backgrounds to their descendants: the ‘one-sided arrangement’, ‘alternative arrangement’, and ‘creative adjustment’. The linguistic education includes the different means chosen by parents for transmitting their language competence to their offspring. The discussion of religious upbringing is based on data from people raised with two cultures and two festivity systems, and their family practices regarding religious holiday celebrations.

Исторический корпус как цель и инструмент корпусной палеославистик

Author(s): Viktor A. Baranov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 14-15/2015

The author of the article describes the features of diachronic corpuses, created on the base of medieval Slavic codices. Their specificity in terms of compliance and transcription of the original objects is presented and the ratio of the markup standards and characteristics of Old Church Slavonic texts, specialized forms for searching and for displaying samples as well. The formation of a new applied section in medieval studies: corpus palaeoslavitic with computer tools is argumented and defined.

Научни форуми

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 26/2013

ПРЕДЛОЖНАЯ СИНОНИМИЯ В РУССКОМ ЛИТЕРАТУРНОМ ЯЗЫКЕ ПЕРВОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ XIX ВЕКА

Author(s): Lyaysen Ravilevna Abdulkhakova,Kseniya Valeryevna Kotnikova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2013

The article presents the main types of synonymous prepositions in the Russian literary language of the first half of the 19th century. The author provides the examples of each type based on literary texts of the period under consideration and in accordance with the existing scientific classifications. The paper reveals such trends in the development of prepositional synonymy as the flexibility of the rules of using morphological synonyms and the stylistic reassessment of the components of synonymic rows.

РЕГИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ИЗВОДЫ КНИЖНОГО ЯЗЫКА И ВТОРОЕ ЮЖНОСЛАВЯНСКОЕ ВЛИЯНИЕ (ОБ ОРФОГРАФИИ ЗАХАРИИНСКОГО ПАРИМЕЙНИКА 1271 Г.)

Author(s): Anna Igorevna Kuzovenkova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2013

The article reveals certain language peculiarities of one of the unexplored manuscripts, Zakhariinskii Parimeinik of 1271. On the one hand, the manuscript reflects the Pskov-Novgorod dialect features: the mixing of affricates w and Ÿ as well as sibilant and hushing sounds, a particular type of the reflexivity of TъrT groups, the use of ;u along with ;l, etc. On the other hand, there are many spellings of South Slavic origin in the manuscript. All this makes it possible to state the appearance of obsolete orthography in Zakhariinskii Parimeinik and to specify information about the number and territorial belonging of the scribes, who worked on the text.

СЕМАНТИЧЕСКАЯ АДАПТАЦИЯ РУССКИХ ЗАИМСТВОВАНИЙ В ПЕРСИДСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ ХIХ – ХХ ВВ.

Author(s): Gelinya Khayretdinovna Gilazetdinova,Rogayye Akbari / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2013

The article studies semantic development of Russicisms borrowed by the Persian language in the 19th–20th centuries. Based on the analysis of Russian and Persian lexicographic resources (including dictionaries of foreign words, explanatory and etymological dictionaries, and Internet data resources) and using the method of continuous sampling, around 300 lexical units have been revealed. Two structural and sematic types of Russian borrowings are described: 1) Russicisms the meaning of which undergoes no or insignificant changes when borrowed from the source language; 2) lexemes the semantic structure of which undergoes quantitative, qualitative or categorial changes in the Persian language.

ИНСТИТУТ СЕМЬИ В КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРЕ РУССКОГО И ПОЛЬСКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ

Author(s): Elena Ivanovna Kolosova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2014

The article contains a comparative analysis of paroemias with the conceptual meaning “family” in Russian and Polish. Special attention is paid to the transformation of the concept “family” in the Slavic sphere of concepts (lexemes “marriage”, “wife”, “husband”, etc.). The conceptological approach to linguistic phenomena and culture contributes to the solution of the problem under investigation. As a result of the research, the universal and specifically national content of the “family” concept in the Russian and Polish languages is determined.

ПЕРЕОСМЫСЛЕНИЕ ИДЕЙ ГЕРАКЛИТА И ПУШКИНСКИХ ОБРАЗОВ С СЕМАНТИКОЙ ОГНЯ В КНИГЕ СТИХОВ Ф. СОЛОГУБА «ПЛАМЕННЫЙ КРУГ»

Author(s): Ludmila Viktorovna Evdokimova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

The paper considers the features of interaction between philosophical and literary reminiscences in one of neomythological texts – F. Sologub’s book of poems “The Fiery Circle”. It is argued that the philosophical ideas of Heraclitus are often expressed indirectly in F. Sologub’s book of poems, through the mythologization of A. Pushkin’s leitmotif tropes with the semantics of fire, burning, as well as through the explication of their hidden meaning. The parallels between Heraclitus’ doctrine and the Greek mysteries drawn by the philosophers of the 19th century are reflected in the mysterial aspect of Sologub’s “fiery” images connected with the symbolist concept of magic art, thereby creating a new artistic reality as an analogue of the universe structure.

ОТРИЦАТЕЛЬНЫЕ СТРУКТУРЫ В ЭВФЕМИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ФУНКЦИИ В РУССКОМ И ПОЛЬСКОМ ЯЗЫКАХ

Author(s): Halina Kudlińska / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2015

The paper is devoted to the study of euphemization and as a pragmalinguistic category and also an indirect communication strategy with the ameliorating intent, i.e., as a means of ensuring the communication comfort and eliciting cooperation with the receiver. In the present study, a specific euphemistic device, “euphemization through negation”, in the Polish and Russian linguocultures is analyzed. Explicit and implicit models of euphemistic negation implemented in various structures and at different language levels (words, phrases, and sentences) are distinguished. Comparative analysis of this type of understatement is carried out. Its fundamental structural characteristics are indicated. The analysis reveals significant structural parallels between the Russian and Polish languages with respect to the type of euphemisms under consideration, although certain differences can also be observed. The use of negative structures in the euphemistic function is motivated by the intention to tone down the categorical character of statements.

СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЕ МЕХАНИЗМЫ ЭВФЕМИЗАЦИИ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО ДИСКУРСА В РУССКОМ И НЕМЕЦКОМ ЯЗЫКАХ

Author(s): Rimma Abelkhayerovna Safina,Diana Rashidovna Khadeeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2015

The paper regards comparative studying of the semantic devices of euphemization used in Russian and German political texts. Based on the public speeches of the political leaders of Russia and Germany, the distinctive features and general functions of political euphemisms as effective means to conceal the genuine sense of utterances are revealed. The most frequent semantic means of negative meaning reduction are found in both languages. They are the usage of lexemes with diffusive semantics, metaphors, diplomatic clichés, and collocations, as well as the introduction of lexemes with positive connotations, etc. The differential and common for both languages tendencies of political discourse euphemization are determined.

ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКОЕ ЗНАЧЕНИЕ ИМЁН ПРИЛАГАТЕЛЬНЫХ В ЯЗЫКЕ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ПРОЗЫ А.С. СЕРАФИМОВИЧА

Author(s): Kamily Eduardovna Sadrieva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2015

The paper analyzes the aesthetic meaning of adjectives in A.S. Serafimovich’s prose. The most typical groups of adjectives are singled out based on their semantic and functional features, which are analyzed considering the main idea and problems of the prose works, as well as the author’s view of the world. Special attention is paid to the syntagmatic relations between adjectives and dependent nouns. The influence of a particular linguistic context on the semantic and emotional contents of adjectives is investigated. The semantic relations between parts of complex words are discussed. Occasionalisms used by A.S. Serafimovich are distinguished.

НЕМЕЦКО-РУССКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ 1834–35 ГГ. И ЕГО ИНОСТРАННЫЕ ЛЕКСИКОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ ИСТОЧНИКИ

Author(s): Laysan Islamovna Akhmetsagirova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2015

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the German-Russian Dictionary of 1834–1835 and its foreign sources (the explanatory dictionaries by J.Ch. Adelung, J.H. Campe, and T. Heinsius that were well-known in the 18th and 19th centuries). The purpose of this study is to find out the lexicographic value of the German-Russian Dictionary of 1834–1835 and analyze the contribution of its authors to the development of German-Russian lexicography. On the basis of the developed method of lexicographic analysis, similarities and differences in the concept and composition of the studied dictionaries are revealed. The comparative analysis is focused on the following aspects: principles for arrangement of headwords; principles for selection of entry words; techniques of meaning discrimination; sources of phonetic, grammatical information; and illustrative examples.

ПОЭТИКА ИМЕНИ В РАННЕЙ ПРОЗЕ А.П. ЧЕХОВА: ЗООЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ОНОМАСТИКОН

Author(s): Rufiya Muslimzhanovna Imankulova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

A.P. Chekhov actively used animalistic surnames and zoonominations in his early works, thereby attributing appropriate psychological and moral qualities to his characters. As a rule, they allow to achieve the comic effect, on which the writer’s artistic world is based, as well as reveal his personal attitude to the character. A.P. Chekhov’s characters are not only given surnames, which are semantically associated with animals, birds, insects (Loshadinykh, Perepelkin, Chervyakov, etc.). The author also invents bright nominations which are semantically related to the habits of animals (Lyagavaya-Grizlova, Khryukin, Ukusilov, etc.) and animalistic nicknames (Il’ka Sobach’i Zubki, Shchur, Sychikha). Furthermore, animal names is one of the main methods of euphemization (“dissolute pig”, “silly goose”, “donkey”, etc.). The analysis of charactonyms with the zoological code shows the connection of A.P. Chekhov’s short stories with the literary tradition of that time and enables understanding of the author’s underlying ironic message.

«ЛЮБОВНЫЕ ПИСЬМА СОВСЕМ НЕ ПРИНАДЛЕЖАТ К ПИСЬМАМ…» (СПЕЦИФИКА ЖАНРА В ЭПИСТОЛЯРИИ Н.М. КАРАМЗИНА)

Author(s): Lyubov' Aleksandrovna Sapchenko / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

The paper for the first time examines unpublished letters of N.M. Karamzin to E.A. Karamzina (nee. Kolyvanova) against the background of the examples of love letters given in “Pismovniki …” of the 18th–early 19th centuries. The purpose of this work is to present the formation of author’s individual modality in Russian literature in more detail and to show more vividly and specifically the personality traits of N.M. Karamzin by the example of his epistolary heritage. The objectives of the paper are to examine the motivic structure and composition of the letters, to describe the basic motivic complexes of an “exemplary” love letter, to trace changes in the epistolary genre at the turn of the century, and to specify the sources of love phraseology in private letters of this period (“Pismovniki …”, French sentimental novel). The study establishes a special status of a love message, as well as its exclusive right to violate the canon, to disregard the established norms and patterns, which, in turn, becomes a normative characteristic of the genre. In the letters to E.A. Karamzina, N.M. Karamzin often used ready-made expressions, certain bookish clichés. At the same time, the diverse and unpredictable reality does not fit into the paradigm of rhetorical culture. It often precludes the use of stable formulas and causes the author of the letters to develop his own unique style. The obtained results reveal genre and style originality of N.M. Karamzin’s letters to his wife, where the letters represent a universal genre that combines in itself addressing his wife with love and concern, conversations with the estate manager, information about N.M. Karamzin’s health (the mes-sages on 1805), reporting from a place of epoch-making events, interpretation of the historical mission of Russia, a prayer to God for the salvation of his loved ones and his motherland (the letters of 1812 from besieged Moscow); court chronicle, small talk, the historiographer’s diary, moral and philosophical conclusions, passionate love declarations, parental blessing, etc. (the letters of 1816 from St. Petersburg). One of the unpublished letters of N.M. Karamzin to E.A. Karamzina is presented for the first time (1805).

Derywaty z interfiksem -i- / -i/y- oraz pierwszym członem czasownikowym w języku serbskim, rosyjskim oraz polskim

Author(s): Dragana Ratković / Language(s): Polish Issue: 51/2016

The paper gives a comparative historical analysis of derivative words with the i / i/y- interfix and a verb as the first component in Serbian, Russian and Polish from the standpoint of contemporary Slavic morphology (derivatology). The aim is to provide their description in terms of semantic variation. The author ascertains that all the three languages feature a derivational model of forming expressive lexis by means of the i / i/y- interfix, predominantly nouns, of mostly humorous and pejorative meaning. A special group is formed by onyms (nicknames turned surnames, but also toponyms, oronyms, hydronyms etc). This type of words first occurred in Serbian and Russian in the thirteenth century (possibly in Serbian in the eleventh century), and in Polish in the fifteenth century. Judging by the available sources, derivatives with the i- interfix appear frequently in historical as well as modern Serbian, Polish and Russian (much more in Serbian and Polish than in Russian). In Serbian and Russian pre-nineteenth-century sources chiefly given names and nicknames-turnedsurnames were noted (in Russian, also some animal and plant names as well as abstract nouns). In Old Polish, words of the discussed kind are zoological and botanical lexemes; from Middle Polish on, the lexemes encompass all semantic categories characteristic of modern Serbian and Russian. It should, however, be stressed that the inaccessibility of the spoken language as well as the limited number of sources introduce considerable uncertainty to observations regarding the time of origin and vocabulary of the first centuries of Slavic languages. This applies especially to expressively marked lexemes, a considerable portion of which is constituted by common nouns of the “A (verb) + -i- / -i/y- + B” model. In contemporary Serbian, Polish and Russian, the lexis formed by means of this derivational model is almost equally developed conceptually and relates predominantly to the same phenomena. Expressive words in all three languages are formed in the processes of metonymisation, metaphorisation, personification, hyperbolization and grotesque, and are characterized by numerous derivational and semantic equivalents.

Образы домашних и диких животных в польских, русских и украинских паремиях

Author(s): Nadiia Melnyk / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2016

Animalisms as the animalistic components of paremiaes play an important role in the semantic codes in Paremiology. The comparative and contrastive analysis of animalisms in the structure of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian paremiaes with the use of a biocentric approach allows us to describe the general and specific features of behaviour and characters that exist in the most widespread paremic images of wild and domestic animals. The animalistic images are typical of: the Polish, Russian and Ukrainian culture. The process of describing each category of animal which takes place in the paremiologic units supports the reconstruction of fragments of a linguistic world‑image and allows us to observe a correlation between such concepts as Animal and Human Being.

WSCHODNIOSŁOWIAŃSKIE NAZWISKA ODIMIENNE W HISTORYCZNEJ ANTROPONIMII PIOTRKOWA TRYBUNALSKIEGO

Author(s): Agnieszka Klimas / Language(s): Polish Issue: 70/2022

The paper discussed the anthroponyms derived from the first names, which are included in the East Slavic designation and are excerpted from the source documents of Piotrków Trybunalski, written in the years 1808–1930. The anthroponyms, derived from the Orthodox baptismal names, closely related to the Christian culture of East Slavic peoples, were recognized as characteristic of these naming processes. The paper also mentioned the interpenetration of morphological and phonetic features of various language systems appearing side by side in one area, reflected in first names and denominal structures of the Piotrków’s territory.

Щрихи към славистиката в скандинавските страни и медиевистичната славистика в Университета в Гьотеборг, Швеция

Author(s): Antoaneta Granberg / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 30/2023

The article provides an overview of Slavic studies in the Nordic countries. It presents the organizations of Slavists and the variety of publication series that are issued within the Slavic scientific field. The text describes the reorganization of departments for Slavic languages and highlights advantages and disadvantages in this development that prevails at Swedish universities in the last decade. The importance of the rich collections of manuscripts and early printed books at Swedish libraries and archives for international research is emphasized. The article also focuses on medieval Slavic studies in Sweden and more specifically at the University of Gothenburg. The specific interdisciplinary environment for medieval studies at the University of Gothenburg is further discussed in the article. Even in education, the University of Gothenburg excels with its complete study programs at undergraduate and advanced level in medieval Slavic studies and Old Church Slavonic. Towards the end of the article, book collections and their connection to people who have contributed to Slavic studies at the University of Gothenburg are discussed.

Безличные конструкции типа нѣтъ воды в языке русских северо-западных летописных и бытовых памятников ХII–ХVI вв.

Author(s): Kira Zhuravleva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2022

The article is devoted to impersonal sentences with form of the genitive case in the language of Old Russian Northwestern monuments. A total of 204 sentences were analyzed, of which only 5 do not contain negation. As a result, the semantics of predicates in constructions of this type are described, statistics concerning the peculiarities of the use of forms of moods and tenses is presented. The use of the lexeme нѣтъ (acting in the function ‘there is no’ in the present tense) and its variants in impersonal constructions are analyzed. It is revealed that constructions without negation function in two types – dialectal northwestern construction with the verb быти and constructions with full-valued verbs.

FEATURES OF THE HISTORICAL VOCABULARY IN THE FORMATION OF THE SYSTEM OF CATEGORIES AND MOTIVATION

Author(s): H. Kocherha / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The article characterizes a word formation, in particular a verbal one, which in the history of its development appeals to the Proto-Slavic heritage and produces the fundamental features of derivation. Transformations of verb-suffix word formation, which is an indicator of segmental changes in categorical, motivational, and semantic-cognitive aspects, have been clarified. It is noteworthy that the word on the basis of which the derivative is formed, since its connections with several creative ones are equally possible, because the specificity of word formation is in its multifacetedness, in the versatility of its connections, and therefore any one-sided consideration of word formation processes ceases to reflect the actual state of affairs and significantly limits its own problematic of word creation. In order to analyze the actual material, the methodological apparatus of Ukrainian derivation (word formation) was applied, other linguistic methods – descriptive with the methods of classification (systematization of the language material), comparative-historical with the methods of etymology, general scientific (induction, deduction, classification, systematization, modeling), cognitive-onomasiological, which makes it possible to characterize the grammatical system of the Old Ukrainian literary language of the 14th – 17th centuries, in particular its word-forming subsystem at the functional and motivational levels. The purpose of the article is to find out the categorical-motivational and structural-word-forming features of the word-forming processes of the denominative verb derivatives in the Old Ukrainian language of the 14th – 17th centuries. The description of the morphological system and structure of the Ukrainian language, based on the main fundamental principles of motivation and categorization of grammar, will contribute to the creation of a conceptually whole, consistent description of the grammatical systems of the modern Slavic languages, the development of typological studies in the grammatical Slavic studies [Gramatiki, 2013, p. 14]. The motivational processes of the Old Ukrainian denominative verbs of the 15th - 17th centuries can be traced both in propositional-dictum and associative-terminal motivations, where the usual connections of the motivating word and their reproduction in the semantics of the derivative are an important feature of the semantic structure of derivatives. Cognitive and onomasiological analysis of the denominative verbs in the segment of functionality and categorization will serve as a perspective for further scientific studies. The history of the derivational processes of the language of the Ukrainian nation, recorded in the written records of the Old Ukrainian period of the 14th – 18th centuries, presents the stages of formation of the verbal word-formation system and demonstrates the implementation of those changes that format the grammatical structure of the language at a certain historical stage.