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The paper presents the work on a typology of the selectional restrictions that verbs from different semantic classes impose on the nouns they combine with. Using the restrictions that have already been defined in FrameNet and VerbNet, we attempt at compiling a unified set of restrictions and translate them as sets of WordNet classes and (sub)trees. As the description of verbs&' conceptual structure is largely language independent, the enriched representation is to a great extent applicable cross-linguistically, as illustrated in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dimitar Matov died at the age of 32, but his work has a substantial contribution in the sphere of Bulgarian and Balkan linguistics and ethnography. Among his works there is a paper called “Greek-Bulgarian papers”, and a research called “Within the History of Bulgarian Grammar”, alongside “On Bulgarian Vocabulary”, “Relics of the Sounds ъм, ън, ем, eн in the Kostur Dialect”, “A Short Debate on Macedonian Ethnography”. As a student of Vatroslav Jagić he was very skilful at reviewing works showing the truth about the Macedonian dialects. V. Jagić and I. D. Shishmanov specifi cally pointed in their obituary that science had lost, due to his early death a lot more achievements in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Makedonia was the name of a Balkan region since ancient times. The geographic region of Macedonia was always multilingual. Modern Slavic dialects in this region are part of the Bulgarian literary language, belonging to the south-east Slavic sub-group. The creation of an independent Bulgarian Church in 1870/1872 marked the end of Hellenism, which had attempted the creation of a language separate from Serbia and Bulgaria. On August 3rd 1944, "Macedonian" was declared as the official language of the Yugoslavian Socialist Republic of Macedonia. As a consequence of World War II, the Bulgarian language had more than one written codification, so one has to speak of a recodification in Macedonia and pluricentrism of Standard Bulgarian, a fact in Macedonia as well as the Aegean part of Greece, Banat and Ukraine. There is a list of Slavic researchers outside Bulgaria, who have published papers and books on this question, e.g. Gustav Weigand, Alfons Margulies and Norbert Reiter. Important research on the question of the so-called "Macedonian language" has also been conducted in Bulgaria and other European countries [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I will discuss Bulgarian and Romanian balkanisms in legal terminology in the context of the European Union. To begin, I will give a short overview of the importance of balkanisms and I will discuss Bulgarian and Romanian in the context of Balkan languages in the European Union. Following Schaller (2012, 2018), I will comment on different features of Balkan languages. As Lyutakova (2017, 2018) puts it, the recent development is characterized by significant political, social and economic changes, which are taking place in both Bulgaria and Romania. This development is important in shaping both Bulgarian and Romanian languages, and is therefore important in shaping legal language in both countries. Thus, I will characterize legal language as a technical language, and present its particularities. I will highlight (un)intelligibility, (in)comparability, and (un)translatability as main features of legal documents. Then, I will analyze examples from the Consolidated Version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The main scope is to discuss balkanisms in this Treaty, and to regard balkanisms in the European legal language as EUbalkanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we first outline previous research on the morphosyntax and phonology of the varieties of Judeo-Spanish spoken in Bulgaria. Second, we discuss the research gaps resulting from our literature survey and present the research questions that will be addressed in the project “Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria: a contact language between archaism and innovation”, funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for a period of three years (2022–2025). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]