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9-30

Authors: Svilen Stanchev

Despite their common and frequent usage in grammar, transitivity as a pivotal linguistic category and the closely related notion of Object have always posed considerable theoretical problems. The strictly formalistic approach of autonomous syntax does not lead to a satisfactory exhaustive definition of the term ‘Object’. In traditional structural grammars on the other hand the notion has been broadened so that it subsumes clausal constituents with rather inhomogeneous characteristics. Theoretically most viable for the account of predicate – object relations is the framework of Functional Grammar with its concepts of predicate frame and Object assignment. Within that theoretical framework we have outlined in this paper a productive pattern in English for the derivation of transitive predicates from intransitive ones.

45-64

Authors: Teodora Ilieva

Object of research in this paper are theological terms in the Middle Bulgarian translation of John Chrysostom’s Of the Seraphim. The analyzed theologisms are grouped into three groups on a structural principle and the development of their semantics has been traced in the direction of expanding or narrowing. Lexemes missing in the Old Bulgarian literary language have been compared with Middle Bulgarian texts originating from the 14th century. The findings point to the role of the Greek terminological system in the formation of the Middle Bulgarian one.

85-102

Authors: Severina Plachkova

The aim of the current article is to present the contributions of Bulgarian scholars to the recognition of Partenii Pavlovich’s Autobiography. The digest of research literature starts with the work of J. Ivanov. He is the first to discover the meaning of Partenii’s personality in terms of the spiritual and historical development of Southern Slavic people. The author comments P. Dinekov’s contribution for including Partenii in the list of 19th century Bulgarian writers. Studies by many other authors are alsotaken into account, including that of P. Boyadzhiev which is currently the only existing holistic study of P. Pavlovich’s life and creative work. This publication also outlines the direction for future interpretations of Partenii’s character – a sufferer in life and yet a man of action

121-129

Authors: Valeria Todorova

The Slovak Romantic Movement arises in a time when classicism is in its decline in European art and philosophical idealism and rational knowledge are giving way to intuition, spontaneity and wild imagination. Modern aesthetic and artistic impulses gain popularity in Slovakia in the 1830s and meet with a positive response from the young generation of lycйe-students in Bratislava, Levoиa and Kežmarok. The gradual transition to the aesthetics and poetics of romanticism in the end of the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s brings about a number of metamorphoses in the cultural-historical consciousness of the Slovak romantic author, who, in the spirit of Štúr’s ideal for “unity of spirit and matter”, creates distinctive romantic norms. He is inspired both by intuitively-emotional impulses and by his own historical destiny, by folk literature, by national idiosyncrasies and the need for literary, cultural and spiritual identification.

146-157

Authors: Ginka Penakova

This paper is a study of a specific grammatical category within the nonfinite verb form systems of English and Bulgarian. This category is based on the functional oppositions between the forms in each of the two systems. The meaning of the category of personal representation is related to the meaning of the category of person within the finite verb form systems.

169-172

Authors: Ancho Kaloyanov

Review: New Image (about: Ivan Stoyanov, “Novi shtrihi...”)

180-184

Authors: Rusi Rusev

Review: With a Researcher’s Ardour and Scholarly Scrupulosity (about: Rusi Rusev. “Mihail Arnaudov’s Journalism”)

192-94

Authors: Margreta Grigorova

Review: An Anthological Panorama of Old Polish Literature (about: Margreta Grigorova, “Zubar, vidra i paun...”)

203-206

Authors: Mariya Angelova-Atanasova

Review: The New Bulgarian–Slovak Dictionary (about: Maria Koskovа, “Bulharsko–slovnik”)

211-213

Authors: Margreta Grigorova

Anniversary to Prof. Nikolay Daskalov

216-217

Authors: Margreta Grigorova

Recent Event: A Chivalry Cross for Prof. Nikolay Daskalov

218-219

Authors: Anne Shturm

Recent Event: A Visit by the German Political Scientist Horst Teltschik

221-222

Authors: Anne Shturm, Mihail Mechnik

Recent Event: German Translation Workshop

223-224

Authors: Katya Marinova

Recent Event: 18th Celebration of Japanese Culture

226-227

Authors: Editorial Board

Academic Degree And Qualification: Prof. Dr Anastasiya Petrova

230-230

Authors: Editorial Board

Academic Degree and Qualification: Dr Habil. Violeta Rousseva

232-233

Authors: Editorial Board

Academic Degree and Qualification: Dr Marinella Petrova

235-237

Authors: Editorial Board

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