Prof. Dr. Boryana Velcheva

 

Office

Cirillo–Methodian Research Center

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Moskovska 13a, Sofia 1000

 

 

Home

Sofia 1606

V. Grigorović 1

 

 

Degrees and titles

Undergraduate degree. Bulgarian philology, Sofia University, 1956,

Thesis: Compound future forms in Old and Middle Bulgarian Candidate of philology, 1970.

Dissertation: Demonstrative pronouns and adverbs in early New Bulgarian texts from the 17th and 18th Centuries.

Senior Research Associate (equivalent to Assoc. Professor), 1974

Dissertation: Middle Bulgarian orthographic types.

Doctor of History, 1988

Dissertation: The Glagolitic alphabet in the Balkans prior to the 13th Century.

Senior Research Associate, First degree (equivalent to Professor), 1990

 

 

Employment

1956–present: Bulgarian Academy of Science

(1956–1979: Institute of Bulgarian Language)

(1976–1994: Institute for Balkan Studies)

(1994–present: Cirillo–Methodian Research Center)

 

 

1971–1972: Fulbright/Hayes Lecturer, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

1979, 1982: Director, International Seminar on Slavic Paleography and diplomacy, CIBAL, Sofia

1981–1985: Visiting Professor, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

1988–1989: Visiting Professor, Köln, Germany

1994: Visiting Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1997: Visiting Professor, Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary

2000: Visiting Professor, CEA, Budapest, Hungary

2001: Visiting Professor, CEA, Budapest, Hungary

 

 

Research abroad

1963: Three months research in paleography with M.V. Shchepkina (Moskow) and E.E. Granstrem and D.S. Lichachev (St. Petersburg)

1976: Three months research in phonology with M. Halle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

1993: Five weeks research in phonology (IREX Short Term Scholar)

   

 

Selected Bibliography

 

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