Like other Slavic languages, Bulgarian lacked a definite article in its earlier stages. Unlike them, it has one today.The book formulates the rules that govern the use of articles and other markers ...of (in)definiteness in Modern Standard Bulgarian in comparison with the seventeenth century, and constructs a model of transition from the older system to the modern one, a model which is then evaluated against broader historical and dialect data and placed in a Balkan and general Slavic context.
The essay was written on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Bulgarian Language Institute. prof. Lyubomir Andreichin BAN (Sofia), which was created in 1942 to form an explanatory dictionary ...of the Bulgarian literary language. The article acquaints the reader with the main milestones in the formation and development of the Institute, with the areas of scientific research, and individual significant works. The Institute is famous for outstanding achievements in the field of Paleo-Slavistics, Dialectology, Linguogeography, Grammar, Lexicology and Lexicography, Etymology, Ethnolinguistics.
Принос към народната медицина, езика и културата на българина през вековете Витанова, М., В. Мичева, Й. Кирилова, К. Мичева-Пейчева, Н. Николова. Етнолингвистичен речник на българската народна ...медицина. София: АИ „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2021, 368 стр., ISBN: 9786192450960.
The article analyzes the micro-novles The Barrier and White Lizard by Pavel Vejinov, Bulgarian Writer from 20th century, which transcends the commun features of science-fiction writing towards the ...meaning of human condition. Composer Manev (the relation of reason with art) and the researcher Aleksov (the relation of reason with science) are absorbed by their work, so they lose the way of the natural rhythm of life. Manev will involve intensely in Doroteea’s life, a strange young girl; he will let himself be trained in the way she sees life. Aleksev will help create a monster, devoid of empathy, totally insensitive. They both overcomes barriers and the only solution its death: Doroteea and Nesi commit suicide.
Beyond their specific properties, colours encompass a vast array of symbolical,social, as well as religious meanings, which may vary greatly from one culture to another, and are not at all universal. ...They can represent physical or moral traits, convey gestures, states of mind and spirit. The authors' predilection for „colorful titles” suggest their multiple symbolism and diverse interpretation. In the work of the Bulgarian writers discussed in this paper (Gheorghi Gospodinov, Teodora Dimova, Zahari Karabashliev) the chromatic symbols preserve their entire traditional value, but they evolve however toward knowledge and exploration.
Recalling her past conversations with G.K. Venediktov, a leading specialist in 19th-century standard Bulgarian, the author reflects on the correlation between the methodology of linguistic research ...and its outcomes. The recollections pertain mainly to the Moscow stage of the author's life (1981–1992). It was a time of transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet era in Russian history, when computers were just entering researchers’ daily routine, and when one had to sign up in advance to get access for a certain short time slot to one of the institute’s computers. Back then, there was a state monopoly on copying technology, scholars wrote their papers by hand or on typewriters, and then copied the final drafts on the office computer, using first 5.25-inch and later 3.5-inch floppy disks, and the text editor Chi-Writer for MS-DOS with encoding for Cyrillic KOI-8. Researchers spent a large portion of their time reading in libraries and checking data in index card collections, handwritten by several generations of scholars. The academic Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies was first located in a two-story mansion, built in 1860 in 30a Trubnikovskii Pereulok and after 1990 it moved to the building of the Academy of Sciences on 32а Leninskii Prospekt. The advent of the Internet, e-mail, cell phones, digital cameras, and the national corpora of the Slavic languages was not far off, which, together with the mass employment of personal computers, was to lead later to a revolution in the methodology of philological research that no one yet foresaw.
The paper presents some emblematic examples from Bulgarian theatrical history, in which the culture of rejection has been ruthlessly applied even to artists loyal to the regime. One of the most ...significant ones is with scenographer Svetoslav Genev. For the first time in the history of Bulgarian theatre, a set designer became a managing director. He rose to this position thanks to his personal qualities and ambition as well as to the strong Communist connections his family had. During the period of his directorship, he created one of the most impressive designs for a theatre performance, rejecting Socialist Realism as an official method in arts. Despite his strong positions in Communist Pary, after the Prague Spring everything, he was largely thrown out of public life.
The paper deals with information regarding the events in and around Niš during the first few months of the occupation of the Kingdom of Serbia in the Great War (1915– 1918). Based on both foreign and ...domestic documents, the paper also analyzes the processes and undertakings regarding the formation of civil and military governments by the occupying forces, with special focus on the Serbian civilians and the health issues in the city itself.
The article proposes the following hypothesis: the examined Kefalenian toponyms are a product of the language of an old local dialect, grammatically related to the "Thraco-Pelasgian" dialects, which ...had a strong influence (including grammatically) on today's Bulgarian language.
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