В статията е поставен въпросът за пространствените и генетични отношения между палеобалканските езици, които представляват един от сложните проблеми на съвременното индоевропейско езикознание. Мненията на учените за съществуването или не на родство помежду им не е единно. Изследвани са две групи съответствия - фонетични (застъпването на палаталите със спиранти, делабиализацията на лабиовеларите, третирането на експлозивните съгласни) и топонимични (наблюдения върху две групи от топоними, в първата от които имена от една и съща основа се срещат в три или повече езикови области, а във втората - в две езикови области). Аргументирана е хипотезата, че съвпадението между областите на фонетични и на топонимични съответствия е белег не само за географска близост, но и за генетично родство между тези езици.

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wo auditory tests were carried out with different tasks being set to the listeners. The results from both tests proved to be almost the same. German and Bulgarian listeners gave very similar answers regarding the boundary „diphthong-monophthong“ and the correlation coefficients between the listeners’ answers and the physical parameters of the test stimuli were also of the same order in both cases. The answers of the Bulgarian listeners as regards the phonetic quality of the first components of the diphthongs varied in a higher degree as compared with the answers of the German listeners who identified them more „correctly“. This fact may be explained by the different phonological status of the two kinds of units.

The article attempts to prove that the choice of aspectual and temporal forms of the verbs in a Bulgarian text describing events depends not only on the grammatical principles of verb co-ordination but on the adverbial modifiers surrounding the actants as well as on the semantics of the latter. A rich system of tenses, aspects, witness and non-witness registers facilitates the authorization of the narrative as well as the concrete appreciation of simple facts and actions which in other languages are presented in a non-event informatively neutral variant. The analysis shows that eventfulness which is a totally universal text category is expressed in specific ways in different languages depending on the linguistic possibilities for describing extralinguistic situations.

The article discusses the interlingual relationships between the prepositions of horizontal orientation in Russian and Bulgarian. Special emphasis is put on the specific use of the prepositions перед, пред and за, зад which are characterized by semantic proximity in the two languages.

The functional semantic fields of conclusive modality in Bulgarian and Ukrainian are compared. Using excerpts from fiction translations, the author attempts to establish the Ukrainian functional equivalents of the Bulgarian conclusive forms or combinations of a modifier and a conclusive form. Although the study is confined to what is sometimes referred to as introductory words

This paper discusses some typologically relevant features of the structure of the Bulgarian standard language in terms of their systemic relationships and functional interdependence, as compared to other Slavic languages. Two basic types of phenomena are analysed: categorial innovations and their incorporation in the system taken as an abstract entity of categorial inventory common to all Slavic languages; re-organization of Slavic grammatical means connected with the work of a definite typological mechanism. In this connection several types of reorganizational processes and tendencies are discussed (dichotomy, unification, grammaticalization, secondary paradigmatization, analyticity, redundancy, etc.).

The article presents a contrastive analysis of complex sentences with subordinate clauses of effect of inference in German and Bulgarian. The analysis is carried out on the semantic, lexicosyntactic and structural-syntactic levels. As an objectively existing cause-effect relation can be linguistically expressed in terms of both the cause and effect, in many cases the types of sentences under discussion can be transformed into complex sentences with a subordinate clause of cause. The conditions under which such a transformation would be possible are given in the article.

The paper reports the results of a contrastive analysis of the semantic and morphological features of the indefinite pronouns in modern Bulgarian and modern Polish. Some statistical data are given about the use frequency of different groups of indefinite pronouns. Using statistical analysis, the study attempts to define some typical as well as some specific tendencies in translating indefinite pronouns from Polish into Bulgarian and vice versa.

The article presents a contrastive study of some French and Bulgarian astronautic terms formed on the basis of typically Russian models. Simple two-component terms taken from dictionaries, which are highly productive and widely used, are discussed. Some similarities and differences in the use of such terms in Russian, French and Bulgarian are shown.

The article considers the semantic and syntactic similarities and differences between the most frequently used interrogative particles in Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian. The conclusion is drawn that the particle ли is more grammaticalized and more frequently used in Bulgarian than in Serbo-Croatian. The author suggests that the form of the predicate (positive or negative) in98 fluences the meaning of sentences with an interrogative particle in Serbo-Croatian.

The article attempts to establish the semantic features of the verbs to be and съм, connected with monocentric predication, as well as of the bicentric verbs to have and имам. Some conditions are pointed out in which parallelism between these two types of verbs is possible. Two basic types of interlingual transformations are discussed: (1) to have → съм and to be → имам, accompanied by structural asymmetry of the predicative phrase, and (2) to have → съм and to be → имам, accompanied by asymmetry in the prepositional phrase. Some typical differences in the themo-rhematic organization of the analysed English and Bulgarian sentences are also pointed out.

This paper examines the morphosyntactic phenomenon of tense neutralization in English, Bulgarian and Russian subordinate clauses of time as a typological universal. The underlying premise is that grammatical categories and rules may со-vary with functional domains (e. g

The article is an etymological study of the vocabulary of a secret language used by beggars in the village of Dobărsko, Razlog district. The author is the first scholar to have recorded this jargon, its specific functional transformation into a jargon of the male population having prevented its study hitherto. The etymological analysis reveals interaction between neighbouring Balkan languages mainly. Most of the loan-words have changed in accordance with the phonetic and word-formational rules of the locally spoken dialect. Some of them have undergone semantic modifications, too.