31 articles in this issue
Zuzanna Topolinska
Category formants – their place in (semantic and formal) language structure The author argues that the so-called category some of the grammaticalized segments of the corresponding semantic fields that are especially important for successful linguistic com... see more
Maciej Mielnik
The Slavic ‘da’ and its Balkan peculiarities The aim of this article is the analysis of the Slavic ‘da’, its derivates and distribution, from Proto-Slavic to modern Slavic languages, with particular emphasis on the Serbo-Croatian diasystem. The main assum... see more
Bilyana Ovcharova
Clitic doubling of the proposed direct object in Bulgarian The presence or absence of accusative clitic doubling in Bulgarian clauses with direct object preposing serves grammatical or pragmatic purposes and falls within the discussion on word order, in p... see more
????????? [Ekaterina] ??????????? [Turpomanova],????? [Iskra] ??????? [Dobreva]
Expulsive negation in subordinate clauses introduced by‚ while (not) / until (not)’: Iudeo-Español in the Balkan context The paper approaches the temporal limitative subordinate clauses headed by asta/fin ke (no), the Judeo-Spanish equivalent to ‘while (n... see more
Jakub Banasiak
Some remarks on the formalization of the propositional argument pCaus in sentences with prepositional causative predicative expressions in Bulgarian The paper focuses on the means of expressing propositional arguments in sentences with prepositional causa... see more
????? [Boban] ???????????? [Karapejovski]
A possible classification of indefiniteness exponents in Macedonian The concept or category of determinateness finds its grammaticalization in the category of definiteness. Beginning from the dialectical configuration of reality, which finds its linguisti... see more
???? [Sonja] ??????????? [Milenkovska]
A model for interpretation of direct and indirect speech acts using pragmatic theories (examples from Macedonian dramatic discourse) This paper presents a model for the interpretation of direct and indirect speech acts using pragmatic theories. The aim of... see more
????? [Dimka] ?????? [Savova]
Syntactic structures with logical subject (of the type ‘verb + ?? ??’) in the Bulgarian language The paper analyses the most frequent group of syntactic structures of the type ‘verb + ?? ??’, namely impersonal structures that express a need or desire. The... see more
Lindita Sejdiu-Rugova,Merima Krijezi
The current use of the past imperfect tense in Albanian and Serbian – a case studyThe article deals with the indirect influence of Albanian grammar among the native speakers of Serbian who study Albanian as a foreign language as an awareness and transform... see more
Marija Runic
Slavic-Romance language contact: the case of two phenomena in Resian This paper investigates the mechanisms of language contact in shaping two aspects of Resian nominal and clausal syntax, the quantifier karjë ‘many, much’ and the rise of subject clitics.... see more
Anna Cychnerska
Expressing intensity in Serbian and Macedonian The article presents the way of expressing intensity in Serbian and Macedonian. The analysis of derivatives was made using the semantic word-formation methodology. It was initially assumed that the close rela... see more
Tomasz Cychnerski
Stem morphophonology in Romanian paradigmatic derivatives: alternations and their functions Paradigmatic derivation is one of the basic word formation processes in Romanian. The aim of this paper is a characterization of its formal exponents. The work is ... see more
Artur Karasinski,Irena Sawicka
Balkan derivatives with the borrowed Turkish suffix -çi / -ci In the paper we reflect on which of the allomorphs of a suffix should be considered its basic form (and on what grounds). This problem requires morphonological analysis. We will illustrate this... see more
Artur Karasinski
Word formation in 17th century Gheg AlbanianThe article constitutes a word formation analysis of the Gheg dialect Albanian texts from the 17th century. The only Albanian texts of this period preserved to this day come from northern Albania and form the ba... see more
???? [Viara] ????????? [Maldjieva]
Rules of a formal description of Bulgarian inflected lexemes as a component of normative grammar A formal description of the set of grammatical means in Bulgarian as a component of its normative grammar should form the basis for adequate distinction and d... see more
????? [Ruska] ???????? [Stancheva]
Research principles for formal classification of verb lexemes in modern standard Bulgarian The article aims to present new formal classification of verb lexemes in modern standard Bulgarian, based on morphological criteria. The fundamental criterion is th... see more
?????? [Tatiana] ???????????? [Aleksandrova],????? [Ruska] ???????? [Stancheva]
Inflectional types within first conjugation in standard Bulgarian The article presents the modulation models in some first conjugation verbs in the Bulgarian language based on a certain set of classification characteristics and diagnostic forms. The infle... see more
?????? [Iliiana] ?????? [Kuneva]
Some types of nouns in Bulgarian in view of their formal description This article presents a part of the formal description of nouns in Bulgarian made for the purposes of the Normative grammar of modern Bulgarian. It reviews the descriptive approach that ... see more
????? [Milen] ????? [Tomov]
On a new approach in describing adjectives in Bulgarian (with the ontext of the development of a normative grammar) The article presents a new approach in the description of adjectives in Bulgarian, one that is based on strict differentiation between form... see more
???? [Lora] ?????? [Mikova]
Description of inflected numeral types in Bulgarian (as applied in the work on a normative grammar) This article describes the principles of defining the types of inflected numerals in Bulgarian which are used in the work on a normative grammar of the lan... see more
Milosz Bukwalt
An der schönen blauen Donau… Depictions of the Novi Sad massacre in contemporary Serbian literatureThe tragic events in Novi Sad in January 1942 constitute an important subject in the prose of Aleksandar Tišma (Knjiga o Blamu [The Book of Blam]), Erih Koš... see more
Marta Cmiel-Bazant
The Slovenes and Central Europe In the 1980s, a few years before Slovenia became an independent country, many intellectuals – including writers, politicians, sociologists and historians – were trying to answer the question about the cultural area in Europ... see more
Ana Kodric Gagro
Theatre workshop as a foreign language teaching tool: advantages of “trivial literature” in the dramatic-theatrical approach The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the advantages of dramatic-theatrical approach to foreign language teaching as exemplified... see more
Katica ?ulavkova
The sacral function of language, literature and the Bible in the context of Borislav Pekic’s novel The Time of Miracles This essay promotes the thesis about mythogenesis as a form of cosmogenesis. It also addresses the sacral function of language in liter... see more
Arleta Szulc
On translations of the Greek s????µa, s???? etc. Reflected in CS redactions of the Book of Psalms The paper discusses the Slavonic equivalents of the Greek words skenoma, skene and also katoiketerion, katoikia and paroikia in selected (O)CS versions of th... see more
Tzvetomira Venkova
Chomskyan revolution in Bulgarian socio-cultural and linguistic environment The term Chomskyan revolution, referring to the innovative current in modern American linguistics and Noam Chomsky as it’s leading figure, permeated the metaphorical imagery of th... see more
Angelika Zanki
Remembering in Croatian society as exemplified by the “hero city” Vukovar The article concerns forms of maintaining memory in Croatian society. Its starting point is the term sites of memory (lieux de mémoire), introduced by Pierre Nora, who defines them ... see more
Karina Melnytska
When new is (un)forgotten old – Slavica Lodziensia (Slavica Lodziensia, a journal edited by Anetta Buras-Marciniak. Lódz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, 2017, 175 pp.) A review of the first issue of the new Slavic journal, which follows the tradition... see more
Lilla Moroz-Grzelak
Slavic visions of the modernitas idea A review of the new collective volume Fabryka Slowian. Modernizacje [Slavic Factory. Modernizations], ed. Danuta Sosnowska, Warszawa: Wydzial Polonistyki UW, 2017, 407 pp., which is the first part of the research proj... see more
Irena Sawicka
Robert Elsie – obituary (*29 June 1950 – †2 October 2017) This obituary outlines the professional career and work of Robert Elsie, an outstanding specialist in Albanian studies. Robert Elsie – wspomnienie posmiertne (*29 czerwca 1950 – †2 pazdziernik... see more
A bibliography of works by Robert Elsie. (Scientific papers, translations, studies, presentations) The paper gives a list of selected publications of Robert Elsie. Bibliografia prac Roberta Elsie. (Teksty naukowe. Tlumaczenia. Opracowania. Wystapieni... see more