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 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.
The article traces back the formation of the clitic cluster in Bulgarian starting from the Old Church Slavonic through Middle Bulgarian up to the Early Modern Bulgarian and beyond. It offers a ...hypothetical two-layer structure of the cluster – with the main layer consisting of a (pronominal) core and a (verbal) periphery, and a secondary layer hosting (‘quasi-clitical’) elements that exhibit, both diachronically and synchronically, a behaviour that is not strictly consistent with that of the clitical elements. The language material from three corpora shows that there was no change in the positions of the elements in the core, and the changes in the periphery observed are mainly due to the changes in the set of the elements (as a result of the restructuring of the pronoun system and changes in the auxiliary system, as well as the loss of some early clitics, such as the discourse markers).
In this book, Bozhil Hristov investigates the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as crucial differences between them and seeking a ...unified approach.
The article examines the use of linguistic didactic case studies in the teaching of students of pedagogy at Trakia University – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. The specificity of their educational content is ...tied to the application of the communicative approach to the text. Qualitative analysis of the created texts as well as descriptive statistics is applied. A high level of solving the cognitive task (dimension of goal-setting conceptual knowledge) by the future teachers was found. The trend is also maintained at the other three dimensions, with nearly two-thirds of the surveyed persons dealing with case studies – part of their language-didactic training, linked to textological issues in the pedagogical interaction with children aged 3 to 7. Educational tasks aimed at a procedural dimension were the most difficult for a relative proportion of students (29%), followed by those related to remembering and understanding factual knowledge (18%), as well as case studies related to metacognitive knowledge (15%). This way of working primarily aims at the creative application of competences for planning pedagogical interaction in the educational environment of the kindergarten in the field of linguistic-literary discourse.
The cultural vibe of Haryana is one of the most vibrant in India. Unlike cities like New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai that are very metropolitan and modern in the truest sense, Haryana is a state most ...of whose cities are still rustic and flaunt an authentic taste to its socio- cultural milieu. Through the didactic nature of the folklore, ideas of cultural reawakening and social awareness and upliftment are perceived and acknowledged by the conscious readers. Anthropologists and cultural theorists like Max Muller and Theodore Benfey have contributed considerably towards Indian folklore and have brought it to the mainstream of study. Similarly, Haryanvi folklore, similarly, is a constellation of the regional themes and cultural ideology. This research paper attempts to draw similarities in the narrative structures and other literal aspects of five select folktales from Haryana namely: 1) The Farmer's Present, 2) A Traveler's Story, 3) Bellows for the Bullocks, 4) The Silver Well and 5) The Hoarder. Folktales challenge our understanding of morality by developing the audience's perception of right and wrong, sanity and insanity and wisdom and imbecilities. These similarities will be analyzed using the Bulgarian-French historian Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory model. Keywords: Folklore, Haryana, Didactic, literature, Indian folklore.
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