Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1991. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 412-433).

Thesis supervisor: Roumyana Slabakova. Includes bibliographic references (p. 185-195).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Arlington, 2009.

The change from infinitives to clausal constructions is a character- istic of languages of the Balkan area - Greek, Bulgarian and Macedonian, Roumanian and Aroumanian, Albanian - which distinguishes them from their Indo-Europeancognates,andfrommostotherlanguagesoftheworld. It is therefore, interesting both as an unusual linguistic development and as a probable instance of syntactic interaction between geographically con- tiguous languages. The thesis is an attempt to examine, in as much detail as the scanty historical records permit, how this change took place in Bulgarian, and to consider in the light of their evidence the relative merits of the various explanations which have been offered for the change, whether as aBulgariandevelopmentorasaBalkanphenomenon. Thus,althoughatten- tion is given mainly to Bulgarian, it is hoped that the conclusions may beinsomepartacontributiontoBalkanstudies. Itisalsohopedthat the body of factual material presented, which is drawn from published sources either not previously studied from this point of view or not studied so fully, may be of use to other investigations of the history of Bulgarian. Thefindingsareheldtoaddfreshevidencetothoseinthe most detailed work on the subject, Mirchev's monograph of 1937, some of whose conclusions are disputed in the thesis. The object of research is defined as the Bulgarian language from the tenth to the seventeenth centuries, that is, from its first written re- cords to the date when its syntax had developed to approximately its modern state. For practical reasons Bulgarian and Macedonian are not dis- tinguished in the thesis, although their separate status as modern lan- guages is recognized. [Abstract continues in thesis]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Helsinki, 1985. / Abstract in Russian. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-319).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Helsinki, 1985. / Abstract in Russian. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-319).

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The primary objective of this dissertation is to expand the testing ground of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2006), which states that interface properties involving the syntax and other cognitive domains (such as discourse) may trigger residual optionality effects at the end-state. The target of investigation were Bulgarian object clitics whose syntactic and discursive properties provide a good testing ground for theoretical approaches to second language acquisition. Ten advanced and 14 intermediate L2 speakers of Bulgarian, as well as a control group of Bulgarian native speakers, participated in the study. The test materials included a proficiency test, a grammaticality judgment task to check syntactic knowledge of clitics, and a pragmatic felicity task. The latter was aimed at investigating the degree to which L2 learners of Bulgarian, with English as their L1, had acquired a syntax-discourse interface property of Bulgarian, namely the pragmatic function of clitic doubling. In Bulgarian, clitic doubling serves as an overt marker of topicality and `undoubled' object topics are deemed infelicitous. The results of the experiments in this dissertation present a challenge to some theoretical approaches to second language acquisition, namely the Interpretability Hypothesis (Tsimlpi and Dimitrakopoulou, 2007) and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2006). The results showed that the intermediate participants did not differentiate between the felicitous and the infelicitous options in the pragmatic felicity task in a target-like manner as their responses either did not exhibit statistically significant difference or favored the response closest to the L1. However, the advanced L2 learners of Bulgarian had successfully acquired the syntax of clitics as well as the pragmatic meaning of clitic doubling in Bulgarian. They displayed target-like convergence with respect to the syntactic properties of Bulgarian object clitics and distinguished between the felicitous and the infelicitous options in the pragmatic task in a native-like manner. The study highlights the fact that successful learning at the syntax-discourse interface cannot be excluded and a lot more research, exploring as many interface conditions as possible, needs to be done in order to validate the Interface Hypothesis as a legitimate constraint which permanently hinders native-like performance.

Consumption of wine is high internationally. There is a tendency of increasing consumption of qulity wine over table wine. The experience of drinking wine is not like drinking any other alcohol beverage, it is more sensual experince because of the sophistication of the taste and flavors that wine possesses. Sweden is not an exeption from the worldwide trend of increasing wine consumption. Moreover, Swedes are developing even more esthetic way of drinking wine, namely combining it with food. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of the Swedish consumers towards wine and in particular towards Bulgarian wine if there are any existent. It further investigates the determinants of the attitudes and perceptions towards wine. Three interviews with representatives of HoReCa (Hotels, Restaurants and Catering) and Systembolaget are conducted. They and the literature review serve as a base for the formulation of hypotheses which have to be supported or rejected with the help of a questionnaire developed for that purpose. The questionnaire is translated in Swedish as it is designed for the Swedish consumers. The current research is descriptive, so only descriptive statistics are used for the analyses of the data collected. The results of the study are really intriguing. Some factors that are mainly con-sidered of great significance turned out as not so important when it comes to the Swedish wine consumers. The interviews gave a really interesting insight about the specific situation on the Swedish alcohol market and the consumption of wine among Swedes. The questionnaires reached their purpose and helped to support or reject the formulated hypotheses and to draw some essential conclusions about the perceptions and attitudes towards Bulgarian wine. Finally, this paper ends with the main conclusions reached by conducting the research, some market implications about wine producing companies that would like to enter the Swedish alcohol market and in particular Bulgarian wine cellars. Then the shortcomings of the study and the future research are dis-cussed.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Holy Cross Orthodox School of Theology, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-92).