Moldova State University English Philology Chair Master Degree 2010 admittance examination program: I.Stylistics.

Expressive Means (EM) and Stylistic Devices (SD). Some Notes on the Problem of the English Literary Language (Standard English). A Brief Outline of the Development of the English Literary Language. Varieties of Languages. Types of Lexical Meaning. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary. Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial Vocabulary. Special Literary Vocabulary. Special Colloquial Vocabulary. Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. Intentional Mixing of the Stylistic Aspect of Words. Interaction of Different Types of Lexical Meaning. Interaction of Dictionary and Contextual Logical Meanings. Interaction of Primary and Derivative Logical Meanings. Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meanings. Interaction of Logical and Nominal Meanings. Intensification of a Certain Feature of a Thing or Phenomenon. Peculiar Use of Set Expressions. Syntactic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. Problems Concerning the Composition of Spans of Utterance Wider Than the Sentence. Particular Ways of Combining Parts of the Utterance. Peculiar Use of Colloquial Constructions. Transferred Use of Structural Meaning. Stylistic and Grammatical Morphology. Guide to Lexico-Syntactical Stylistic Devices. Functional Styles of the English Language. The Belles-Lettres Style. Language of Poetry. Emotive Prose. Language of the Drama. Publicistic Style. Oratory and Speeches. The Essay. Articles. Newspaper Style. Brief News Items. The Headline. Advertisments and Announcements. The Editorial. Scientific Prose Style. The Style of Official Documents. II.Lexicology The Object of Lexicology. The Connection of Lexicology with Phonetics. Stylistics, History of the Language and Grammar. Lexicology and Sociolinguistics. The Sociolinguistic Process of Borrowing into the British Variant of English. The Sociolinguistic Process of Borrowing into the American Variant of English. Lexicology and Suprasegmental Phonology. Lexicological Phonetics. The Prosody of Enantiosemy. Word Meaning. Types of Meaning. Word Meaning and Meaning in Morphemes. Word Meaning and Motivation. Change of Meaning. Meaning and Polysemy. Polysemy and Homonymy. Word Meaning in Syntagmatics and Paradigmatics. Meaning Relations in Paradigmatics and Semantic Classification of Words. Antonyms. Synonymy. Word-Groups and Phraseological Units. Some Basic Features of Word Groups. Structure of Word Groups. Meaning of Word Groups. Independence of Structure and Meaning in Word-Groups. Word-Building. Affixation. Conversion. Compounding. Abbreviation, Clipping, Blending. Some of the Minor Types of Modern Word-building. Phraseology. Phraseological Units (Set Expressions. Stylistics of the Word. Stylistics of the Words. The Etymology of the English Vocabulary. Borrowings.

Interrelations Between Native and Borrowed Elements. The Enrichment (Replenishment) of the English Word-Stock. Ways and Means of Enriching the Word Stock. Variants and Dialects of the English Language. The Main Variants of the English Language. The British and the American English Variants. Archaic Words. Neologisms. English Lexicography. Types of Dictionaries. Terminology. Additional materials. The Sociolinguistic Process of Borrowing. The Formation of the International Vocabulary. The Sociolinguistic Motivation of the Vocabulary. The Basic Metalanguage of Lexicology. III. Practical Phonetics. Classification of phonemes in English. The system of phonemes in English. The Systgem of vowels and consonants in English. Weak and strong forms of phonemes. Word stress, sentence stress, primary and secondary stress. Tone, tempo, pause. IV.Practical Grammar. Morphology. The system of verbal categories in English: tense, mood, voice, anteriority (perfect forms), aspect (continuous forms), person and number. The Adjective: morphological and syntactic functions. The degrees of comparison of adjectives. The Adverb: morphological and syntactic functions: Degrees of comparison of adverbs. The Pronoun. Classification of pronouns. Personal and possessive pronouns. Syntax. Simple and compound sentences. Parts of the sentence. Subject and predicate, Object and adverbial modifiers. Prepositions and their classification according to their structure and type of communication. Classification of prepositions. The article: definite, indefinite and zero articles. V. History of the Language. Old English. The Old English verbal categories. The phonemes, development of monophthongs and diphthongs. Parts of speech. Grammatical categories. Declension of nouns. The pronoun, adjective and grammatical categoies. Weak and strong verbs. Wordbuilding and structure of words. Middle English. The influence of the Norman Conquest on the development of the English Language. The London Dialect. Registered writings. The development of the national literary language. Modern Engllish and the progress of culture. Expansion of England. Renaissance literature. Change of orthography and evolution of sounds from 11th century up the the 18th century. Evolution of vowels and consonants. Changes in all the parts of speech: article, adjective, verb. Simplification of verbal conjugation. Morphological changes of the verb. Development of new forms and categories. Development of the English vocabulary. Patterns of Examination Questions: 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. 22. Old English Verbal Categories. Bibliography: Akhmanova O. , L,Minaieva. An Outline of English Phonetics. M.,1973. Arnold I.V. The English Word. M., 1986. Blokh M. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. M., 1983. Galperin I.R. Stylistics. M., 1971. Koonin A.V. . . 2005. Mednikova E.M. Seminars in English Lexicology. M., 1978. Melenciuc D. (alctuitor) A Reader in English Lexicology, MSU, 2005. Melenciuc D. (alctuitor) A Reader in English Phonetics, MSU, 2005. Melenciuc D. (alctuitor) A Reader in English Stylistics, MSU, 2005. Melenciuc D. (alctuitor) A Reader in the History of the English Language and Germanic Philology, MSU, 2005. Melenciuc D. Comparativistics. MSU, 2002. Rastorguyeva N.A. History of the English Language. M., 1969, 1983.