journal of the Institute for Bulgarian Language
pISSN 0005-4283, eISSN 2603-3372

Balgarski ezik (Bulgarian Language) is an academic journal published by the Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The Journal was founded in 1951 and has since been published without interruption.

The Journal accepts papers describing original research in Bulgarian linguistics, including history, dialectal diversity and current state of the Bulgarian language, along with papers in the field of theoretical, corpus and computational linguistics. Results of etymological, onomastic, ethnolinguistic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, comparative and interdisciplinary studies on Bulgarian are published as well.
The Journal maintains the following sections: Articles, Scientific Communications, Language Competence, Reviews and Overviews, Chronicles, Anniversaries and Jubilees, Bibliography.

The papers submitted to the Journal should conform to the Journal’s requirements. Submissions are subjected to double blind review by two independent reviewers. Four issues of the Journal are published annually.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ASSOC. PROF. TATIANA ALEXANDROVA, PhD – Institute for Bulgarian Language (t.alexandrova{at}ibl.bas.bg)

DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
PROF. DIANA BLAGOEVA, PHD – Institute for Bulgarian Language (d.blagoeva{at}ibl.bas.bg)

INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITORS (INSTITUTE FOR BULGARIAN LANGUAGE OF BAS):

• PROF. ELKA MIRCHEVA, PhD (elka_mircheva{at}ibl.bas.bg)
• ASSOC. PROF. KATYA CHARALOZOVA, PhD (k.charalozova{at}ibl.bas.bg)
• PROF. LILIA KRUMOVA-TSVETKOVA, DSc
• PROF. SLAVKA KEREMIDCHIEVA, PhD (s.keremidchieva{at}ibl.bas.bg)
• PROF. VASIL RAINOV, DSc (rainovv{at}abv.bg)

MEMBERS:

• CORR. MEM. OF BAS PROF. T. BOYADZHIEV – Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
• CORR. MEM. OF BAS PROF. S. BUROV – University of Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria)
• PROF. G. DEL’AGATA – University of Pisa (Italy)
• PROF. M. DIMITROVA-VALCHANOVA – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
• CORR. MEM. OF BAS PROF. I. DOBREV – Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
• PROF. J. FEUILLET – National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (France)
• PROF. I. KRAPOVA – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
• PROF. J. LINDSTEDT – University of Helsinki (Finland)
• PROF. V. MALDZHIEVA – Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń (Poland)
• PROF. H. MIKLAS – University of Vienna (Austria)
• PROF. B. NORMAN – Belarusian State University (Belarus)
• PROF. K. RÅ Hauge – University of Oslo (Norway)
• PROF. C. RUDIN – Indiana University (USA)
• PROF. E. SCATTON – University at Albany (USA)
• PROF. H. SCHALLER – University of Marburg (Germany)
• PROF. M. STAMENOV – Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgaria)
• PROF. T. SZYMANSKI – Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
• PROF. E. UZENEVA – Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)
• PROF. G. VENEDIKTOV – Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)