СЕДМИ ФОРУМ „БЪЛГАРСКА ГРАМАТИКА“ / SEVENTH FORUM ON BULGARIAN GRAMMAR

The 7th Forum on Bulgarian Grammar – symbolically hosted by the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo and co-organised by the Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – was held on 22 October 2020 under the heading Innovation Processes in the Grammar of Contemporary Bulgarian. Due to the pandemic, the Forum took place online, with participants and attendees communicating to each other from three principal locations: the Institute for Bulgarian Language, the University of Veliko Tarnovo and the University of Plovdiv. Some participants logged in from their homes. Despite these difficulties, the two sessions were received with great interest and spurred lively discussions.There were 23 talks included in the programme (presented according to the authors’ affiliations): 5 – from the University of Veliko Tarnovo, 5 – from the Institute for Bulgarian Language, 5 – from Sofia University, 4 – from the University of Plovdiv, 1 – from Trakia University, 1 from the South-West University, 1 – from the Institute of Mathematics and Informat-ics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 – from the Bashkir State Uni-versity at Ufa, Russian Federation.The Forum began with congratulatory addresses by the Deputy Director of the Institute for Bulgarian Language Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hristina Deykova, the President of the University of Veliko Tarnovo Prof. Dr. Hristo Bondzholov and the Head of the Department of Modern Bulgarian of the Fac-ulty of Philology at the University of Veliko Tarnovo Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ma-ria Ilieva.The Forum was dedicated to Prof. Dr. Sc. Ruselina Nitsolova and her immense contribution to Bulgarian grammar as the only Bulgarian author of a grammar on Bulgarian to have been published in Germany in English. Her work was translated by another invited speaker – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hris-to Stamenov. A leading expert in Bulgarian grammar, Prof. Ruselina Nitsolova was an invited speaker at the Forum where she delivered her talk on Context and Meaning of Grammemes after Grammaticalisation.The talks submitted for publication by the participants in the Forum will be published in the 2021 Supplement of Balgarski ezik.