TABLE OF CONTENTS

1945 Bulgarian Orthography Standard:
70 Years Later

Boian Valtchev 70 Years: Is It a Long or a Short Period?	pp. 8–14
From the Archives: Regulation Statute on Orthography (27.02.1945)	pp. 15
From the Archives: Project for Modernisation of the Bulgarian Orthography Standard	pp. 16–24
From the Archives: Alexandar Teodorov-Balan. The Work of the Seventh Orthography Commision (8.12.1944)	pp. 25–62
From the Archives: Proposal of the General Directorate of Publishing Houses, Printing Industry and Printed Editions Trade (8.11.1950)	pp. 63
From the Archives: Reference of the Deputy President, Council of Ministers	pp. 64
From the Archives: Draft-Order on Paper No. 859 of 8.11.1950 (see No. 6824) (27.11.1950)	pp. 65
From the Archives: Order of the Council of Ministers No. 936-1 of 27.11.1950	pp. 66
From the Archives: The Council of Ministers to the General Directorate of Publishing Houses	pp. 67
Boian Valtchev Bulgarian Spelling and the Spelling Dictionaries	pp. 68–93
Petya Osenova Thoughts on the Weakening of the Grammar Norms	pp. 94–102
Teofana Gaydarova Parallel Words in the Official Bulgarian Spelling Dictionary	pp. 103–114
Andreana Efftimova The Tension between Langage Practice and Codification (Variation of Abstract Noun Plural Forms)	pp. 115–122

The Syntactic Rule
of the Long (Full) and the Short Forms
of the Definite Article in Bulgarian

Boian Valtchev The Syntactic Rule of the Long (Full) and the Short Forms of the Definite Article in Bulgarian: An Orthographic Rule, a Grammatical Rule, or Just an Imagined Rule?	pp. 123–138
Petar Pashov On the Issue of the Long (Full) and the Short Forms of the Definite Article in Bulgarian	pp. 139–147
Mihail Videnov Again on the Long (Full) Form of the Definite Article in Bulgarian	pp. 148–149
Mihail Videnov Time and Again on the Long (Full) and Short Forms of the Definite Article	pp. 150–152
Stefka Petrova A Long (Full) Form of the Definite Article, a Short Form of the Definite Article or…?	pp. 153–158
Irena Vassileva, Elisaveta Boyadzhieva The Long (Full) Form of the Definite Article – a Measure for Literacy?	pp. 159–168

Book Reviews

More Than a Timely and Useful Book

pp. 169–173

Book Reviews

Anna Angelova 180 Years of the Publication of Bulgarian Grammar by Neofit Rilski

pp. 174–181

Comics:
Between Literature and Visual Arts

Antoaneta Alipieva Comics – Beginning of Bulgarian Critical Reflection?	pp. 182–184
Aleksandar Vachkov The Comics in Varna (1980–2015)	pp. 185–193
Misha Zaslavskiy The Graphic Novel N Illustrated by Alex Maleev	pp. 194–196
Mariya Zozikova The Scriptwriter and the Fiction Writer in the Works of Asen Kozhuharov	pp. 197–209
Anton Staykov The World Beyond in the Comics Ilijcho, August and the Seven Dwarfs by Gelevi Brothers	pp. 210–224