Publications List
Cynthia M. Vakareliyska
Books and Monographs:
1. Action Heroes: A Survey of English Loanblend Open Compounds across the South Slavic Languages. Columbus:
The Ohio State University Press (in press 2022, 55 ms. pages).
2. Lithuanian Root List. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2015 (91 pp.).
3. Vakareliyska, Cynthia and Kevork Horissian, eds. Bulgarian Dictionary. In: †Mary Ritchie Key and Bernard
Comrie, eds. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, 2015. http://ids.clld.org/contributions/200.
4. The Curzon Gospel. Vol. I: An Annotated Edition. Vol. II: A Linguistic and Textual Introduction. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008.
5. The Missing Folia from the Banica Gospel: Equivalent Passages from the Curzon Gospel, with Annotations.
Polata knigopis´naja (Amsterdam) vol. 30: 50–177 (1996, monograph published as long article).
Editions:
1. Alexander Kulik, Catherine Mary MacRobert, Svetlina Nikolova, Moshe Taube, and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska,
eds., The Bible in Slavic Tradition. Boston: Brill, 2016.
2. Anissava Miltenova, Cynthia Vakareliyska, and Christine Holden, eds. Rethinking the Past—Looking to the
Future: Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Eugene, Oregon,
May 31–June 1, 2012. Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Sofia: Boyan Penev, 2015.
3. Michael S. Flier, David J. Birnbaum and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, eds. Philology Broad and Deep: In Memoriam
Horace Grey Lunt. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica, 2014.
4. Anissava Miltenova and Cynthia Vakareliyska, eds. Bulgarian-American Dialogues/Bŭlgaro-amerikanski dialozi.
Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Varna, Bulgaria, June
13-15, 2008 and of the Seventh Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Columbus, Ohio,
USA, October 9-12, 2003, Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2010.
5. Dziwirek, Katarzyna, Herbert Coats and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, eds. Papers from the Seventh Annual
Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. University of Washington, Seattle, May 6-8, 1998.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1999.
Digital Collation: continually updated and expanded free-use electronic computer collation of medieval Slavic
menologies (calendars of saints) in XML markup and with search program, at http://
http://dev.obdurodon.org/menology/. Electronic blueprint designed with David J. Birnbaum. At present the
published corpus consists of 30 Slavic, Greek, and Latin calendar texts, with an additional 125 mostly
unpublished calendars awaiting mark-up. Supported by ACLS Digital Innovations Fellowship grant 2008-09,
with research assistants Holly Lakey, Bill Mahota, and Dilyana Petrova.
Dissertation: The Dative/Accusative Opposition in Russian, Bulgarian and Latvian, Based on Data from Aphasia.
Harvard University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1990 (unpublished ms).
Articles and Chapters:
I. Gospel textology
1. “Methodological issues in compiling an edition of the Curzon Gospel.” Studii Slavistici 13: 257–71 (2016).
2. “Distinguishing linguistic and textual features of the Dobrejšo Gospel’s Book of Matthew.” In: Alexander Kulik,
Catherine Mary MacRobert, Svetlina Nikolova, Moshe Taube and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, eds. The Bible in
the Slavic Tradition. Boston: Brill 257–270 (2016).
3. “The synaxarion to the Dobrejšo Gospel (western Bulgaria, 13th cen.).” In: Hanne Martina Eckhart and Thomas
Rosén, eds. Knigamъ bo jestь neiščetnaja glubina: Essays in Honour of Irina Lysén. Uppsala: Uppsala
University Press, 209–223 (2015).
5. “Issues in compiling an edition of a medieval Slavic ecclesiastical manuscript: The Dobrejšo Gospel as an
example.” In: Donald Dyer, Brian A. Joseph, and Christina E. Kramer, eds. Od Čikago i nazad: Papers to
Honor Victor A. Friedman on the Occasion of his Retirement. Balkanistica 28: 567–595 (2015).
6. “Distinguishing linguistic and textual features of the Dobrejšo Gospel (Mark, Luke, and John).” In: E. N.
Meščerskaja, ed. Svjaščennoe Pisanie kak faktor jazykovogo i literaturnogo razvitija. Materialy
Meždunarodnoj konferencii “Svjaščennoe Pisanie kak faktor jazykovogo i literaturnogo razvitija (v areale
avraamičeskix religij)”, St. Petersburg, 30 June 2009 (Holy Scripture as a factor in linguistic and literary
development: Materials from the International Conference on Holy Scripture as a Factor in Linguistic and
Literary Development in the Abrahamic Religions), St. Petersburg: Dmitrij Bulanin 178–87 (2011).
7. “On Ohrid/‘Preslav’ seams in the Book of John.” In: Wolf Moskowich, Svetlana Nikolova & Moshe Taube, eds.
The Holy Land and the Manuscript Legacy of the Slavs. Jews and Slavs (Jerusalem: Hebrew University /
Sofia: Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center) 20: 271–80 (2008).
8. “Parallels between the Savvina Kniga and Curzon Gospel versions of the ‘Walking on Water’ lection, Mt 14: 22–
34.” Palaeoslavica (Cambridge, Mass.) XV (1): 340–44 (2007).
9. “Desiderata for an electronic collation of medieval Slavic Gospel texts.” Scripta & e-Scripta: The Journal of
Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies (Sofia), 2003(1): 55–65 (with summary in Russian).
10. “The textology of the Curzon Gospel.” In: V. Friedman and M. Belyavski-Frank (eds.), Gedenkschrift in Honor
of Professor Zbigniew Go…◊b: Papers from the Eighth Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic
Linguistics, Literature and Folklore (University of Chicago, April 1992), Balkanistica vol. 10, 1996: 394-416
(double-refereed conference volume).
11. “A preliminary comparison of the Curzon and Banica gospels.” Oxford Slavonic Papers. New Series, xxvi: 1–39
(1993).
II. Medieval calendars of saints
1. “The Church Slavonic Karpino Gospel menology and seven close Greek relatives. Part I: Descriptions and
Transcriptions.” Byzantinoslavica 80/1–2: 196–279 (2022).
2. “An expanded annotated transcription of the calendar entries of the Zografski Trefologij (Draganov Minej).” In:
M. Dimitrova, Ralph Cleminson, and V. Željaskova, eds. Slavjanski tekstove i tradicii. Sbornik v čest na
Katrin Meri MakRobŭrt (=Kirilo-Metodievski studii kn. 31). Sofia: BAN, 499–602 (2021).
3. “Assignment of saints to calendar dates in the Bdinski Sbornik.” In: V. Savova, I. Trifonova, I. Petrov, and P.
Petkov, eds., Sapere aude. Sbornik v čest na prof. dfn Iskra Xristova-Šomova, Sofia: Universitetsko izd. “Sv.
Kliment Oxridski”, 2019: 323–339.
4. “Relationships between the Greek Prologue of 1295 and nine South and East Slavic calendars.” In: Adelina
Anguševa, Margaret Dimitrova, Marija Jovčeva, Maja Petrova-Taneva, and Dilijana Radoslavova, eds. Vis et
sapientia: Studia in honorem Anisavae Miltenovae. Novi izvori, interpretacii i podxodi v medievistikata.
Sofia: Bojan Penev, 350–394 (2016).
5. “The Neapolitan Wall Calendar from a medieval Slavic perspective.” Scripta & e-Scripta 14-15: 131–152 (2015).
6. David J. Birnbaum, Zoe Borovsky, James Danowski and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska. “Orthodox saints as Facebook
friends: Social networking and medieval manuscripts.” In: Michael S. Flier, David J. Birnbaum and Cynthia
M. Vakareliyska, eds., Philology Broad and Deep: In Memoriam Horace Grey Lunt. Bloomington, IN:
Slavica, 7–22 (2014; philological parts of article and issue framing).
7. “The commemorations in two very closely related Bulgarian menaia: The Zograph Trephologion and Menaion
F.I.п.72.” In: Greta Stojanova, ed. Filologija i tekstologija. Jubileen sbornik v čest na 70-ta godišninata na
prof. Ujljam Feder. In honorem t. 2. (Philology and textology: Festschrift in honor of the 70th birthday of
Professor William Feder. In honorem, vol. 2.) Shumen: Shumen University Press (Bulgaria) 2014: 412–450.
8. “Kultove i kalendari v srednovekovna Bŭlgarija. Do kakva stepen kultovete na svetcite sa otrazeni v
mesecoslovite?” (Cults and calendars in medieval Bulgaria: To what extent are cults of saints reflected in
menologies?) Starobŭlgarska literatura (Old Church Slavonic Literature) 47: 313–320 (2013) (Russian
summary).
9. “The preservation of the Synaxarion to the Constantinople Typikon in the medieval Bulgarian calendar tradition.”
Starobŭlgarska literatura (Old Church Slavonic Literature) 45–46: 144–164 (2013) (special issue of selected
papers from the XXIIth International Byzantine Conference, Sofia, August 2011).
10. “Elektronen katalog na srednovekovnite slavjanski i grŭcki cŭrkovni kalendari: opredeljane na kalendarnite
tradicii i tjaxnoto grupirane” (An electronic collation of medieval Slavic and Greek calendars of saints:
Identifying calendar traditions and families, transl. Olga Mladenova). Ezik i literatura 3–4: 106–114 (2012;
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issued 2013, special issue of papers presented at the electronic texts thematic section of the Fifteenth
International Conference of Slavists, Minsk, Belarus, 2013).
11. “Archaic Constantinople Typikon commemorations in the menologion to Apostolus Dečani-Crkolez No. 2.”
Palaeobulgarica xxxvi (3): 92–103 (2012).
12. “The distinguishing features of the calendar in the Codex Suprasliensis.” In: A. Miltenova, ed. Preotkrivane:
Suprasŭlski sbornik. Starobŭlgarski pametnik ot X vek / Rediscovery: Bulgarian Codex Suprasliensis of 10th
century). Sofia: BAN, 51–74 (2012).
13. “The absence of Holy Fools from medieval Bulgarian calendars.” In: Priscilla Hunt and Svitlana Kobets (eds.),
Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives. Bloomington: Slavica, 225–44 (2011).
14. “Reflections of the archaic Constantinopolitan tradition in the Zograph Trephologion.” In: Miltenova, Anisava &
Vakareliyska, Cynthia, eds. Bulgarian-American Dialogues/Bŭlgaro-amerikanski dialozi. Proceedings of the
Eighth Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Varna, Bulgaria, June 13–15, 2008 and of
the Seventh Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Columbus, Ohio, USA, October 9–12,
2003, Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2010: 175–88.
15. “A typology of Slavic menology traditions.” In: Christina Y. Bethin, ed. American Contributions to the XIVth
International Congress of Slavists (Ohrid 2008). Vol. I: Linguistics. Bloomington: Slavica 2008: 227–244.
16. C. Vakareliyska and D. Birnbaum. “A computerized database of medieval Slavic gospel menologies.” In: X.
Miklas and A. Miltenova, eds. Slovo: Kŭm izraždane na digitalna biblioteka na južnoslavjanski rŭkopisi:
Dokladi ot meždunarodnata konferencija 21–26 fevruari, 2008, Sofija, Bŭlgarija. Sofia: BAN 2008: 220–26
(2008).
17. “Precenjavane na mesecoslova ot Banis˘koto evangelie: Novi danni ot edin sestrin rŭkopis (A reassessment of
the menology to the Banica Gospel: New evidence from a sister manuscript).” In: A. L. Miltenova, ed.
Bulgarian-American Perspectives: Sixth Joint Meeting of North American and Bulgarian Scholars,
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, May 30 - June 2, 1999. Sofia: IK “Gutenberg”, 219–232 (2000).
18. C. Vakareliyska, K. Horissian and H. Pankl. “A computer collation of medieval Slavic menologies. Saints and
sex: Mid-life crisis of a DTD”, Palaeobulgarica 2: 14–25 (1998).
19. “Twin Serbian menologies.” Die Welt der Slaven 42: 137–49 (1997).
20. “Medieval Slavic menologies on-line.” In: D. Birnbaum, A. Bojadžiev, M. Dobreva and A. Miltenova, eds.
Computer Processing of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts: Proceedings. First International Conference, 24–28
July, 1995, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 1996: 197–206.
21. “Sŭvpadenija i razliki v teksta i mesecoslova na dva blizki rŭkopisa: Kŭrzonovoto i Baniškoto evangelija”
(Coincidences and discrepancies in the text and menology of two closely-related manuscripts: The Curzon
and Banica Gospels). Palaeobulgarica 1994(1): 58–67.
22. “The Curzon Gospel menology (W. Bulgaria, c. 1354): Anomalies and Archaisms.” Indiana Slavic Studies 7:
264–72 (1994).
III. Historical linguistics
1.“Preliminary observations: Masculine singular names in -ии and -осъ and other shared morphological features in
four South Slavic prologues.” In: Mary-Allen Johnson, ed. Festschrift for Predrag Mateic (tentative title),
Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers (volume in preparation, 2022).
2. Cynthia M. Vakareliyska and Roger Gyllin. “Proto-Slavic and Old Church Slavonic.” In: Lenore Grenoble and
Victor Friedman, eds. The Slavonic Languages (2nd ed.), chapter 2, London: Routledge, 195 ms. pages (in
press, 2022).
3. “On ѣ-ѧ-а- vowel letter alternations in the Curzon Gospel.” Balkan Linguistics / Linguistique Balkanique (Sofia)
XLVI(2-3): 219–41 (2007).
4. “Dots and acute accents in the Dobrejšo Gospel.” Studia Ceranea 16: 209–28 (2017; Łódź, Poland).
5. “Shared orthographic patterns in the Curzon and Vratsa Gospels.” In: Michael S. Flier and Christina E. Bethin,
eds., American Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists (Minsk 2013), Bloomington,
IN: Slavica 45–62 (2013).
6. “Serbian-type features in the Curzon Gospel.” Zeitschrift für Slawistik 56(1): 108–118 (2011).
7. “Macedonian or western Bulgarian? The Dobrejšo Gospel (XIII c.).” Slovo: Journal of Slavic Languages and
Literatures (Uppsala) 50: 13–26 (2010).
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IV. Synchronic linguistics
A. Morphosyntax
1. Valeriia Tretiak and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska. “Productivity and semantic distribution of English-borrowed
[N[N]] constructions in the East Slavic languages vs. Bulgarian” (submitted January 2022, 50 ms. pages).
2. “English loanblend [N[N]]’s and related constructions in Croatian.” In: James J. Pennington,Victor Friedman, and
Lenore Grenoble, eds. And Thus You Are Everywhere Honored: Studies Dedicated to Brian J. Joseph,
Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 391–424 (2019).
3. “[N[N]] and related constructions in Serbian.” In: Stephen Dickey and Mark Lauersdorf, eds., V zeleni drželi
zeleni breg: Studies in Honor of Marc L. Greenberg. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 351–395 (2019).
4. “An inventory of [N[N]] and related constructions in Bulgarian and Macedonian newspapers.” In: The Current
State of Balkan Linguistics: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Kenneth E. Naylor Lectures, ed. Donald L. Dyer,
Brian D. Joseph, Mary-Allen Johnson (=Balkanistica 32:1), 257–322 (2019).
5. “English loanblend [N[N]] constructions in Bulgarian and Macedonian: A comparison.” In: Michael S. Flier and
Christine Bethin, eds. American Contributions to the Nineteenth International Congress of Slavists (Belgrade
2018). Vol. I. Linguistics. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 189–209 (2018).
6. Vakareliyska, Cynthia M. and Vsevolod Kapatsinski. “An Anglo-Americanism in Slavic morphosyntax:
Productive [N[N]] constructions (with focus on Bulgarian).” Folia Linguistica 48(1): 277-311 (2014).
7. Kapatsinski, Vsevolod and Cynthia M. Vakareliyska. “[N[N]] compounds in Russian: A growing family of
constructions.” Constructions and Frames 5(1): 69–87 (2013).
8. “The new English [N[N]] construction in the Slavic languages, and why the Baltic languages don’t have it.”
Slavistica Vilnensis 56(2): 45–52 (2011).
B. Syntax
9. “Negation in Slavic.” In: Greenberg, Marc. L. and Lenore A. Grenoble, eds., Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages
and Linguistics Online. Brill (in press, 2022).
10. “Na-drop revisited: Omission of the dative marker in Bulgarian double dative object constructions.” In: Laura
Janda, Ronald Feldstein and Steven Franks, eds. Where One's Tongue Rules Well: A Festschrift for Charles E.
Townsend (=Indiana Slavic Studies, 13), 2002: 165–192.
11. “Subject/topic slots in Bulgarian: Evidence from aphasia.” In: J. Toman, ed. Papers from the Third Annual
Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (University of Maryland, May 15, 1994) 1996: 273–
290.
12. “Na-drop and aphasia: The case-marking function of Bulgarian clitic doubling.” Harvard Studies in Slavic
Linguistics III: 234–242 (1995).
13. “Na-drop in Bulgarian.” Journal of Slavic Linguistics vol. 2(1): 121–150 (1994).
14. “Dŭlboki podlozi v bŭlgarskija ezik. Tendencii v rečta na edin bolen s akustiko-mnestičeska afazija.”
(Underlying subjects in Bulgarian: Tendencies in the speech of a patient with acoustico-amnestic aphasia).
Sŭpostavitelno ezikoznanie (Contrastive Linguistics, Sofia), 3: 31–39 (1991).
15. “Deep-structure subjects and rule ordering in the speech of a Bulgarian aphasic.” Harvard Studies in Slavic
Linguistics I: 144–174 (1990).
C. Neurolinguistics
16. “Language-specific issues for the Bulgarian LARSP profile and adult aphasia examinations.” In: Martin Ball,
David Crystal and Paul Fletcher, eds. Assessing Grammar: The Languages of LARSP, vol. II. Bristol.:
Multilingual Matters, chapter 12, 236–261 (2016).
17. “A model of the dative/accusative opposition for Slavic languages, based on data from aphasia.” Sŭpostavitelno
ezikoznanie 19(3–4): 7–16 (1994).
18. “Implications from aphasia for the syntax of null-subject sentences: Underlying subject slots in Bulgarian.”
Cortex 29: 409–430 (1993).
V. Ethnolinguistics
1. “Due process in wartime? Secret Imperial Russian police files on the forced relocation of Russian Germans
during World War One.” Nationalities Papers 37(5): 589–611 (September 2009).
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2. “Zróżnicowanie tożsamości językowej i kulturowej niemieckojęzycznej mniejszości ewangelicko-augsburskiej
zamieszkującej tereny byłego zaboru rosyjskiego w Polsce w XIX i XX wieku” (Linguistic and cultural selfidentification of the German-speaking Lutheran minority in former ‘Russian Poland’ in the 19th and 20th
centuries). Biuletyn polskiego towarzstwa językonawczego/Bulletin de la Société Polonaise de Linguistique 61:
179–199 (March 2007).
3. “Multiple language and cultural self-identities of the German-speaking Lutheran minorities in ‘Russian Poland’
(Mazowsze and Suwałki provinces) in the 19th–20th centuries.” In: Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake,
eds. American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists (Ljubljana, 2003). Volume 1:
Linguistics, 2003: 195–215 (summary in Polish).
VI. Service publications
1. “Asociacijata za bŭlgaristični izsledvanija v SAŠT — Minalo, nastojašte, bŭdešte” (The Bulgarian Studies
Association in the U.S.: Past, present, and future). In: Panajot Karag´ozov & Juliana Stojanova, eds. Minalo,
nastojašte i perspektivi na čuždestrannata bŭlgaristika. Sbornik s dokladi ot Meždunarodnata krŭgla masa,
posvetena na petdesetata godišnina na Letnija seminar po bŭlgaristika. Lozen 19–20 juli 2012 g. Sofia: Sofia
University Press 67–72 (2013).
2. “Bulgarian Studies in the United States.” In: A. Miltenova, ed. Bu˘lgaristika 2001: Mez˘dunarodna rabotna
sres˘ta, Sofija, 21—22 septemvri 2001 g. — Dokladi (Bulgarian Studies 2001: International Workshop, Sofia,
September 21–22, 2001), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2001: 122–127 (summary in Bulgarian); abridged version
reprinted in Bulgarian Studies Association Newsletter, Winter 2003.
VII. Book reviews
1. Ivan Biliarsky. Word and power in mediaeval Bulgaria. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 450–
1450, vol. 14. Brill: Leiden/Boston, in The Medieval Review, 12.05.05, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/
dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/14434/12.05.04.html?sequence=1 (2012).
2. Jouko Lindstedt, Ljudmil Spasov, and Juhani Nuorluoto, eds. The Konikovo Gospel/Konikovsko evangelie. Bibl.
Patr. Alex. 268. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 125 (2008), Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica,
in Slavic and East European Journal 54 (2): 401–410 (2010).
3. Pirinka Penkova, ed. Rečnik-Indeks na Sinajskija Evxologij po izdanieto na R. Nachtigal: Nachtigal, R.
Euchologium Sinaiticum. Starocerkvenoslovanski glagolski spomenik. 1. Fotografski posnetek. Ljubljana,
1941; 2. Text s komentarjem. Ljubljana, 1942. Sofia: Akademično izd. “Prof. Marin Drinov” (2008), in
Scando-Slavica 56 (1): 119–122 (Oslo, 2010).
4. Henry R. Cooper, Jr. Slavic Scriptures: The formation of the Church Slavonic version of the Holy Bible (Madison:
Fairleigh Dickinson 2003). Balkanistica 21: 177–179 (2008).
5. D. Bunčić and H. Keipert, eds. Rozmova Besěda. Das ruthenische und kirchenslavische BerlaimontGesprächsbuch des Ivan Uževyč. Sagners Slavistische Sammlung Bd. 29 (München: Otto Sagner, 2005) and D.
Bunčić, Die ruthenische Schriftsprache bei Ivan Uževyč unter besoderer Berücksichtigung der Lexik seines
Gesprächsbuchs Rozmova/Besěda. Slavistische Beiträge Bd. 447 (München: Otto Sagner, 2006), in Canadian
Slavonic Papers March/June 2007: 136–137.
6. Anisava Miltenova and David Birnbaum, eds., Medieval Slavic manuscripts and SGML: Problems and
perspectives/Srednovekovni slavjanski rŭkopisi i SGML. Problemi i perspektivi. (Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov
Academy Publishing House, 2000), in Die Welt der Slaven XLVII: 390–394 (2002).
7. Margaret H. Mills, ed. Slavic Gender Linguistics (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999), in Language 77(2): 363–
365 (2001).
8. Stefan Pugh. Testament to Ruthenian: A Linguistic Analysis of the Smotryc'kyj Variant (Harvard Ukrainian
Institute, 1996). Canadian-American Slavonic Papers 32(1–4): 414–415 (1998).
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