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• Content... 1. Elena S. Lyubenova. Handbook of Comparative Grammar of Slavic Languages. University Publishing House, Plovdiv, 2001, p. 186. This is a book for students seminars on Comparative Grammar of Slavic Languages. The purpose of this book is to form competence about historical development and present state of Slavic languages and Common Old Slavic Language. To achieve this purpose, habits and skills must be acquired for independent work and orientation in various materials on history of every single Slavic Language. Common issues of Slavic linguistics are studied – founders, object and tasks of the Comparative Grammar of Slavic Languages, Indo-European language community, Baltic-Slavonic epoch, Proto-Slavonic language and Proto-Slavonic dialects, classification of Slavonic languages, converegence of Slavonic languages. The historical development and present state of phonetics and morphology of Slavonic languages are studied too. There is also texts in each Slavic Language, exercises and 455 tests in this Handbook. The book was written in Bulgarian.

• Content... 2. Elena S. Lyubenova. Author’s summery of her PhD dissertation “Formal modeling of Bulgarian, Russian and Czech Lexical Homonymy”. Plovdiv, 1999, p.35 This is the author’s summery of her dissertation. It recapitulates the content of her PhD dissertation. On the base of dissertation was published the book ” Formal modeling of Bulgarian, Russian and Czech Lexical Homonymy”. The summery was published for the members of the “ Special Scientific Council of Linguistic in High Testimonial Committee of Bulgarian Scientific Academy”. It's written in Bulgarian.

• Content... 3. Elena S. Lyubenova. Formal modeling of Bulgarian, Russian and Czech Lexical Homonymy. Makros Publishing House, Plovdiv, 2001, p. 167. This is a book about one lexical problem in three Slavic Languages – Bulgarian, Russian and Czech. The methodology is complex and different. We used some formal and structural methods to analyze the structure of Slavic Lexical Homonymy. The book was written in Bulgarian.

• Content... 4. Elena S. Lyubenova. Grammar of Upper Sorbian Language. Makros Publishing House, Plovdiv, 2003, p. 240. This is the first grammar of this Slavic micro language written and published in Bulgaria. The Grammar presents in practical aspect systematic description of grammar structure of modern Upper Sorbian Language – one very small Slavic micro language in Germany. The first part includes common problems of the history of this small Slavic Language and of the history and present of this small people. In other parts we describe some problems of Phonetics, Phonemic changes, Morphology (Parts of speech. Verb and nouns. Morphological categories) and Syntax. Syntagma. Sentence and utterance. Parts of sentence. Kinds of sentences - simple and compound. The book ends with the first Upper-Serbian – Bulgarian Phrase-Book. The book was writtenin Bulgarian.

• Content... 5. Elena S. Lyubenova. Semantics of Instrumental Case in Upper Sorbian Language. Makros Publishing House, Plovdiv, 2006, p. 325. The book is written in Bulgarian language. This is the first monograph about this language problem in Upper Sorbian Language (a micro language in Germany). And at the same time this is the first theoretical monograph about Upper Sorbian Language written and published in Bulgaria at all. In our book we study Instrumental Case in the light of methodological constructs of the Cognitive Semantics. We describe in detail all semantic varieties of this case by using terms like: lingual picture of the world / non-lingual picture of the world, lingual / non- lingual fragment of the picture of the world, lingual situation / non- lingual situation, scenario / script/ of development of the lingual situation, physiological portrait of the participants in the situation. All this actions are developed over a broad illustrative material of contemporary Upper Sorbian Language.

• 5. Elena S. Lyubenova. Life in split   (Tales about one journey of self-discovery). Under print. This is the book about the different worlds of souls and people. The story is told by the soul of main character Emma. There are real things, fantasy and parallel existing things between two worlds. The soul of Emma tells some multicultural stories about different type of women and their journey to maternity.