CONTENTS
CONTRASTIVE STUDIES
Zhana Stancheva – Terms with an expression structure – a weakness or a necessity in the terminology of the European Union (on Bulgarian, Polish and English data) // 5 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.5-18
This paper examines a structural group of terms, referred to by Maria Popova as „terms with an expression structure” – complex phrases that incorporate a detached participle. The author perceives them as a drawback in terminology and neither defines, nor analyses them. The aim of the text is, on the one hand, to present the opinions of other authors on the matter and to propose a working definition for the structural group. On the other hand, to isolate terms that correspond to this definition in European legal terminology within the field of healthcare and to compare them in three languages – two Slavic ones (Bulgarian and Polish) and one non-related, serving as a source of borrowing (English). The comparison shows that terms with an expression structure are the least frequent in the source language, indicating their independent terminological choice in the Slavic languages rather than a result of direct borrowing. A notable distinction among the related languages is that in Polish these terms are more frequent and diverse, highlighting a better predisposition towards them in Polish term creation.
Key words: terms with an expression structure, detached participles, legal terminology of the European Union
Izabela Kozera-Sławomirska – The status of redundant expressions in a comparative perspective // 19 // DOI:https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.19-36
This paper examines the question of semantic and pragmatic aspects of the functioning of pleonastic expressions. The question of pleonasticity understood as redundancy on the part of the sender has not been investigated sufficiently by linguists and is still an actual problem for contemporary linguistics. The basic problem is the difficulty of formulating the definition of the term pleonasm and differentiating it from the notion of tautology. Another important question is the normative valuation of pleonasms. The phenomenon of pleonasticity corresponds with the problem of blurriness of the borders between semantics and pragmatics. A contrastive analysis of pleonastic constructions of the vector type in various Indo-European languages indicates the existence of a general and communicative tendency for semantic redundancy.
Key words: pleonasm, pleonastic expression, redundancy, tautology, Polish, Russian, English
DISCUSSIONS, REVIEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Vasil Stamenov – The category receptivity in contemporary Bulgarian // 37 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.37-50
The article provides a brief overview of various concepts related to the place of the grammaticalized meaning of evidentiality in the morphological system of contemporary Bulgarian. It is hypothesized that all witness and non-witness verb forms can be united under the two-member morphological category receptivity, based on the formal-semantic opposition witness : non-witness (where the core meaning of the unmarked member is distancing).
Key words: evidentiality, morphological category, receptivity
Anton Andreev – Acquisition of the honorific system in the linguistic repertoire of Japanese students between 6 and 12 years of age // 51 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.51-74
REVIEWS AND ANNOTATIONS
M. Stefanov. Nominalization of the predicate in Serbian and Bulgarian standard languages at the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century (E v e l i n a G r o z d a n o v a ) // 75 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.75-78
Martin Stefanov’s monograph examines the processes of nominalization of the predicate, but the author has set himself the goal of doing this in a comparative plan between the Serbian and Bulgarian languages, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Both nominalized constructions and periphrastic predicates are explained in detail. The main stylistic and textual characteristics of the nominalizations are also presented.
K. Kucarov. Bulgarian lexeme classes and the studying of part of speech classes (Ve r a M a r o v s k a ) // 79 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.79-85
The review is focused on the innovative ideas and findings in the monograph by K. Kucarov: the contemporary view of the classification of lexemes into part-of-speech-classes and the highlighting of the categories discursive and determinative; novel interpretations of some verbal categories and their grammemes in Bulgarian.
Yu. Stoyanova. Problems of psycholinguistics (A n d r e a n a E f t i m o v a ) // 86 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.86-90
The review presents the achievements and contributions of Yuliana Stoyanova’s monographic study “Problems of Psycholinguistics”, a significant part of which is devoted to presenting her own research in the field of developmental psycholinguistics. Following the logic of her lecture course for speech therapy and pedagogy students, developed over 3 decades, Yuliana Stoyanova’s book combines classical grammar and new psycholinguistic achievements, offers a very rich overview of what has been done in world and Bulgarian developmental psycholinguistics, arranges and explains the seemingly illogical children’s language into clear categories. The result is a truly complete, fully-fledged and modern psycholinguistic study of early ontogenesis, the likes of which has not been available in our linguistic community until now.
I. Georgov. The significance of child linguistics. The works of professor dr. Ivan Georgov on developmental psycholinguistics (Ve l k a P o p o v a ) // 91 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.91-93
This review focusses on a revised and updated edition of a seminal Bulgarian academic work by Prof. Ivan Georgov. His contribution to general and child linguistics is far less-known than his works on philosophy and ethics. The editors, Yuliana Stoyanova and Yuliya Yordanova-Pancheva, set themselves the task of updating and republishing the most important research on the ontogenesis of language by this early twentieth-century scholar, thus making it available to researchers, specialists and students from the fields of linguistics, psychology, pedagogy, speech therapy, philosophy, etc.
I. Tasheva. Medical humanities. Themes, terms, translation (D a r i y a K a r a p e t k o v a ) // 94 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.94-96
The text presents the first work by a Bulgarian author dedicated to the under-studied area of medical humanities in our country. An overview of the thematic content of the book, as well as its structure, is offered. The strengths of the book are highlighted and the readership for which it will bring the most substantial benefit is identified. Argumentation is provided for recognizing the monograph as a pioneering work in the chosen scientific field.
D. Dencheva. Phraseological units in contemporary Bulgarian poetry (Ya n a S i v i l o v a ) // 97 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.97-100
The reviewed monography by D. Dencheva is a contributing study in the fields of Bulgarian stylistics and phraseology. The author analyzes rich empirical material from the texts of contemporary Bulgarian poets and makes generalizations about the ways in which phraseological units function in the complex fabric of the poetic text. The author does not use an established theoretical framework, but in the course of the research develops her own methodology, which, together with the in-depth readings of the individual texts, takes us through the intricate ways in which phraseological units fit into modern Bulgarian literature.
M. Yordanova, I. Saraivanova (eds.) 70 years of Turkic and Altaic Studies
at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (D e n i s l a v a K o v a c h e v a ) // 101 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.101-103
The purpose of this review is to describe the results of celebrating 70 years of the “Turkic and Altaic Studies” Department at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The collection presents research in the field of linguistics, literary studies, language teaching and didactology, history and cultural studies in the field of Turkic studies.
ANNIVERASRIES
Boian Vulchev – On the occasion of 220th anniversary since the birth of Hristaki Pavlovich-Dupchanin. The first steps of the Bulgarian grammatical thought // 104 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.104-109
Vladislav Milanov – Petar Beron – founder of the new Bulgarian literary language (On the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the release of the Fish Primer (Riben Bukvar) // 110 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.110-115
Tsvetana Raleva – A long life devoted to science. 120 years since the birth of Prof. Nikolay Mihailovich Dilevski // 116 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.116-122
Desislava Dimitrova – Vera Marovska at 70 years of age // 123 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.123-125
Desislava Dimitrova – Bibliography of the works of Vera Marovska // 126 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.126-138
Slavka Keremidchieva – Elena Kanevska-Nikolova at 60 years of age // 139 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.139-142
Slavka Keremidchieva – Bibliography of the works of Elena Kanevska-Nikolova // 143 // DOI:https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.143-151
EVENTS
Simeon Stefanov – Sixteenth international Slavic readings. Memory and history in Slavic languages and literatures, 30–31 May 2024 // 152 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.152-155
Malina Stoycheva, Valentina Stefanova – International annual conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language “Lubomir Andreychin” of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2024 // 156 // DOI: https://doi.org/10.60056/SE.2024.2.156-161
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ina Mihaylova – Contents of the issues of the journal Contrastive Linguistics XLIХ for the year 2024 // 162
Manuscript submission requirements // 166