Universitatea de Stat din Moldova
Facultatea Limbi şi literaturi străine
Catedra Filologie Engleză
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Seful catedrei „1”iunie2012
Subiecte pentru examenul de admitere la masterat, sesiunea 2012, la disciplina
„limba engleză”
1. Lingvistică germanică, MC, 120cr
2. Studii anglofone, MP, 120 cr
Întrebări la stilisticăşilexicologie:
1.The Connection of Lexicology with Stylistics
2.The Etymology of the English Vocabulary.
3. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary.
4.Peculiarities of Literary, Neutral and Colloquial Layers of the English Vocabulary.
5.Phraseological Units (set-expressions) and Their Classification.
6. The Connection of Lexicology with the History of the Language.
7. The Evolution of the English Vocabulary.
8. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices.
9 Syntactic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices.
10. Lexical Expressive Mans and Stylistic Devices.
11. Morphological and Phonetic Expressive Mans and Stylistic Devices.
12. The Connection of Lexicology with Social Linguistics.
13 The Connection of Lexicology with Grammar.
14.The Connection of Lexicology with Phonology.
15. The Non Finite Forms in Modern English.
16. The Category of Aspect in Modern English.
17. Continuous/Non-Continuous or Perfect/Continuous Aspectual opposition.
18.The Category of Mood in Modern English.
19.The Category of Voice in Modern English.
20. Conditional and Subjunctive II in Modern English.
21.Subjunctive I and Suppositional II in Modern English.
Întrebări la istorialimbiiengleze
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Chronological division of history of the EL.
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OE Period Historical background.
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OE Dialects. Linguistic situation.
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OE Written records and manuscripts.
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Parts of speech and their grammatical categories OE period.
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Nominal Grammatical categories in OE.
Verbal Grammatical categories in OE.
OE Vocabulary and word-building means.
Evolution of consonants in ME and ENE.
Grammatical categories of the pronouns in ME.
Linguistic situation and written record in ME.
Development of the national Literary EL.
Historical background of the ME period.
The Great Vowel Shift.
Evolution of the sound system. Vowel changes in ME and ENE.
Grammatical categories of the noun in ME.
Appearance of future tenses and new subjunctive forms of the verb in ME.
Passive voice forms. Establishment of the category of voice.
Periphrasis with “do”.
Verbal categories.
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Melenciuc D. (alcătuitor) A Reader in English Lexicology, MSU, 2005.
Melenciuc D. (alcătuitor) A Reader in English Phonetics, MSU, 2005.
Melenciuc D. (alcătuitor) A Reader in English Stylistics, MSU, 2005.
Melenciuc D. (alcătuitor) A Reader in the History of the English Language and
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Model de test
I. Grammatical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. (50p)
1.1. (16p) Define the concept of repetition and describe the types of repetition.
1.2. (17p) Comment on the stylistic function of polysyndeton in an utterance on the basis of your
example.
1.3. (17p) Name and comment extensively on the stylistic device(s) in the examples below.
Comment on the effect created by it.
- Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down.
- This Hermit good lives in that wood/ Which slopes down to the sea.
II. Word Meaning in Syntagmatics and Paradigmatics (50p.)
2.1. (16p) Define the notion of semantic field and its relevance for the realization of word meaning.
2.2. (17p) Compare the concept of polysemy to homonymy. Explain why they can be confused and
what the source of confusion is. Illustrate with examples.
2.3. (17p) 1. What is the semantic relation illustrated in the following example:
plant – vegetable – cabbage.Analyze the semantics of the word ‘black’ as illustrated in the
following contexts:
black death, blackboard, black day, blackberry, black paint