Тенденции в (не)граматикализацията на старобългарския глагол мощи ʼмога, в състояние съм’

Author(s): Tatyana Slavova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

The article studies two opposite tendencies in the development of the modal verb мощи (meaning ‘can, be able toʼ – on the one hand, its non-grammaticalization into grameme for expressing periphrastic future tense, and on the other, its grammaticalization into a grameme for expressing periphrastic prohibitive. The issue is discussed in the context of Old Bulgarian writing and the history of Bulgarian language as well as in comparison with other Indo-European languages.

Лексикологични етюди

Author(s): Boris Parashkevov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

Преподаването на българския език в чужбина – изисквания и потребностти в новото хилядолетие

Author(s): Elena Krejčová,Zornitsa Tsvetkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The object of our research are new requirements on teaching Bulgarian language in foreign universities. We concentrate on multimedia, interactive and hypermedia aids, which could be used as an effective alternative teaching technique in order to improve language skills of students who study Bulgarian for foreigners.

Лексикални бележки II

Author(s): Olga Mladenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The second instalment of this series of lexical notes consists of notes three and four, offering corrections to the treatment of two hapax legomena in the Dictionary of the Seventeenth-Century Written Bulgarian Language on a Vernacular Basis (2013). Note three argues that in the early modern Bulgarian version of John Chrysostom’s Life there is a noun opačina which means ‘misfortune, ordeal, hardship’ and compares the seventeenth century usage with that by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. Note four shows that toitu in Mary of Egypt’s Life is the dative case form of To(v)it ‘Tobias’.

Композити с първи компонент дв(а)- в български, руски и полски диалекти

Author(s): Lilyana Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The article analyzes the complex nouns with the first component дв(а)- in three representative Slavik languages – Bulgarian, Russian and Polish. Composites are considered in word formation categories – Names of holders of Substance respect Nomina instrumenti, Nomina agentis. The composites with the first component дв(а)- in the dialects of the three Slavic languares are extremely varied.

За специфичността на именната фраза в българското и чуждестранното езикознание

Author(s): Kunka Molle / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

This article is the first part of a series dedicated to the cognitive characteristics of noun phrases (NPs), namely to the taxonomy of indefinite NPs related to their referential status in view of the opposition specific ~ non-specific. This opposition carries particular importance for the logical-semantic representation of the utterance. In the study of foreign linguistics both terms are often used in an inconsistent and contradictory manner; consequently, this work represents an attempt to bring theoretical clarity regarding their semantics and use.

Български езиковедски дисертации за 2008 г.

Author(s): Sonya Boyadzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

От редактора/ Le mot du rédacteur/ Letter from the editor/ Упътване за авторите/ Guide pour les auteurs/ Author Guidelines

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,French Issue: 1/2015

Letter from the editor and author guidelines

“I travel myself” – nomadic motives originating from the Balkans

Author(s): Darina Felonova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The article examines the special role of the journey - spiritual and physical, in three novels by immigrant authors from the Balkans: Paris-Athens by Vassilis Alexakis, Hotel Europe by Dumitru Tsepeneag and Murder in Byzantium by Julia Kristeva. Represented is the idea that, by leaving his motherland, the immigrant could never attach himself the same way to any place and be fully accepted in the new community. Thus, his constant movement appears as a peculiar reaction to this specific ‘uprooting’ and becomes a way of life and thinking – i.e. a modern ‘nomadism’.

Как да компенсираме загубата на красивото?Непознати сравнения от историята на европейския натурализъм

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

This article examines Southeast-European stories and novels, where for the first time a rejection of the Beautiful in favour of scientific perception can be observed: "Dimo the Orderly" by Gheorghi P. Stamatov (1869-1942), "Parasites" by Barbu Delavrancea (1858-1918), "Rich and Poor" by Grigorios Xenopoulos (1867-1951) are compared with Emile Zola’s (1840-1902) "Nana". These similar themes and topics (the class division of society, the interest in the poor, heredity, pathology, symbolized by money, illness, and death) provide arguments in order to emphasize the existence of a common "system of European values" in a much broader perimeter than that of Western literatures.Thanks to the ideas of literary Naturalism, the materialistic view of life, scientifically legitimized during the Nineteenth century, obtained the credibility to be seen as a literary value. From a literary perspective, we are faced with an objective position of the narrator, adopted by writers (at the expense of the Beautiful, considered until that point as an intrinsic aesthetic value and essential to the art).This article applied the Triangular Pattern, introduced by the author, which implies a constant referring to the phenomena, common to European literatures and does not recommend that scholars remain incarcerated within the study of parallels between Southeаst-European literatures.

Sandra Vlasta. Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English: A Comparative Study. (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 187). Leiden/Boston, Brill /Rodopi, 2015, 296 p.

Author(s): Malamir Spasov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English: A Comparative Study

Изследвания по световна литература 2. том 7, Изтъкнати румънски личности в световната литература и литературна наука. Редактори: Либуша Вайдова, Андрей Териан

Author(s): Ioana Slavcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Comments on the articles under the head-title Outstanding Romanian Personalities in World Literature and Literature Studies

Elena Prus. La francosphère littéraire et l’empreinte française. [Елена Прус. Литературната франкосфера и френският отпечатък.] Chişinău, Pontos, 2013.

Author(s): Rennie Yotova / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2016

Review of the book on the topic of French literature and its influence

Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational. Literature and the New Europe. Edited by César Domínguez and Theo D’Haen. Editeurs : César Domínguez et Theo D’Haen]. Leiden/ Boston, Brill/ Rodopi, [2015].

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2016

Comments on the topic in the book: Cosmopolitan and the postnational. Literature and the New Europe.

От хуманизма до постхуманизма: разсъжденията за Европа у Томас Ман, Андре Жид и Ханс-Магнус Енценсбергер

Author(s): Manfred Schmeling / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

Thomas Mann dealt with the topic of Europe on several levels: literary, theoretically and in the course of time. In his novel The Magic Mountain, the – symbolically speaking – “sick Europe” is meeting in a Swiss sanatorium. André Gide, who is like Thomas Mann a European in spirit, commented on Mann’s essay “Achtung, Europa!” (1936) with these words: “Mann reste […] un humaniste dans le sens le plus plein du mot.” Hans-Magnus Enzensberger – poet and critical observer of European developments – counters this humanistic idea of Europe with a new concept in, among other texts, “Eurozentrismus wider Willen” and Ach Europa (Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent), which can be considered a mixture of essay and literary travelogue. Enzensberger opposes the political and economic attempts at harmonization imposed from Brussels and emphasizes the cultural distinctions of each individual European country. Linked to this commitment to alterity is a postmodern concept, which at the same time questions the grown humanistic discourse on Europe.

Les contes folkloriques dans la dramaturgie symboliste francophone et slave

Author(s): Dina Mantcheva / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2015

The paper examines the selection, structuring and dramatic rendition of the fairy tale plots in the Francophone and the Slavic symbolist dramas, to point out their typological resemblances and inner richness. The study finds out that rewriting the magic stories and their syncretic approach characterize both theatres and mark out their similitudes. However, the Francophone symbolists attempt to intensify the universal and mystical meaning of the folktales. On the other hand, the Slavic authors insert some national and parodic trends in their plays, strengthen the art synthesis and anticipate, in that way, the dramatic experiments in the European vanguards.

Once Аgain on Slavic *gluxъ, *glupъ and *glumъ

Author(s): Bilyana Mihaylova / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2012

The article deals with the Slavic words *gluxъ ‘deaf’, *glupъ ‘stupide’ and *glumъ, *gluma ‘idle talk, mockery; noise; amusement’. It is well known that the notions of ‘dumb’/‘deaf’ and ‘stupid’ are related in many languages. The author follows St. Mladenov’s view that these lexemes go back to IE *ghlew- ‘joy, frolic, joke, play’, but reconsiders it from the semantic point of view. According to her opinion the basic meaning of the root is ‘noise, rumble, rumbling sound’. This assumption is supported by OIcel. glymja ‘to resonate’ and MHG glumen ‘to resound, boom, rumble’. The root *ghlew- has undergone a specific semantic evolution in Slavic: ‘rumbling sound’ > ‘loud and incomprehensible speech; prattle, gibberish’ > ‘inability to speak, dumbness, dumb’. The primary sense of Common Slavic *gluma, *glumъ < IE *ghlow-m- is not ‘joke’ or ‘idle talk, vaunting’, but ‘incomprehensible speech, stammering’ from which evolved the meaning ‘unable to speak, dumb’, cf. S.Cr. glȗm, glúma, glúmo which signifies ‘deaf-and-dumb’.

Номинация ароматного растения душица обыкновенная (Origanum vulgare L.) в русском и болгарском языках

Author(s): Ganna Angelova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

The article examines the origin of the nomination of the herbaceous plant oregano (Rus. душица обыкновeнная). The main object of analysis are the linguistic manifestations of specific and functional signs as the basis of name, and the ways of their expression. Based on this are determined the models of nominative row in Russian and Bulgarian languages. The study of nominative rows of the plant oregano entering the thematic group of phytonyms „Medicinal herbaceous plants of the family Lamiaceae,“ is the most acceptable method for the study of the principles and ways of nomination of objects possessing common properties. This method facilitates the study to focus on the many names and identify the current relations between marked objects and their names, as well as to reveal the systemic organization of thematic vocabulary groups. Furthermore, comparison of current models of nominative rows in the system of the two languages (Russian and Bulgarian) provides an opportunity to indicate the integrity of nominations of the studied thematic group.

За японските заемки в българския език

Author(s): Anton Andreev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The paper introduces the topic of Japanese loan-words in Bulgarian. The main text touches upon the place of Japanese among world languages, the main characteristics of its phonological system, its lexical layers and their respective word-formation patterns, some mediator-languages that have been important in borrowing from Japanese, as well as well as existing variation within the same loan-word. A glossary appendix introduces some of the Japanese loan-words attested in Bulgarian.

Библиография на контрастивни лингвистични изследвания немски – български (съвременни езици) I част: 1980–2005 г

Author(s): Emiliya Basheva,Lilia Burova / Language(s): Bulgarian,German Issue: 1/2016