Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016)

Session: Derzhavin Readings: Modern and Historical Issues in Bulgarian and Slavonic Studies

4 articles
Proceedings Article

Lecturers from Slavonic countries and their role in educational process at Slavonic philology department of the Saint Petersburg/Lenigrad State University

Olga Guseva, Natalia Zhakova, Dragana Drakulich-Prijma, Zoya Shanova
The participation of lecturers from Slavonic countries in educational process at Slavonic philology department provides the students with possibility to learn to be fluent in Slavonic languages and to get more intimately acquainted with culture and literature of the country of the target language. The...
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Habituality and modality of reflexive forms in Bulgarian

Elena Ivanova, Galina Petrova
The Bulgarian constructions with the inflectional particle se resulting from voice transformations and actant derivations (passive and subjective impersonal) can convey both actual and non-actual meaning. The present paper reviews the habitual and modal meanings of the se transformations, identifies...
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Bulgarian equivalents to Russian conjunction a to

Anastasya Mosinets
There is no direct equivalent to the Russian conjunction in the Bulgarian language. The given conjunction has an ambiguous syntactic status and a variety of meanings. Its most important function is that it is used in so-called alternative motivation sentences. In the Bulgarian language we observe one...
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Zoomorphic Cultural Codes in the Semantis of Bulgarian and Russian Similes

Radostina Stoyanova
This article deals with zoomorphic cultural codes of Bulgarian and Russian linguistic pictures of the world, in which images of domestic and wild animals often underlie the associations with human qualities and traits of character. The content of similes of the Bulgarian and Russian languages reflects...