Modern Armenian Language and Translation Studies

Master's programme

Applicants to the “Modern Armenian Language and Translation Work” Program must hold a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent qualification.

  • Admission of applicants holding a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in the relevant field is based on the results of their academic performance during previous studies.
  • Admission of applicants holding a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in another field is based on the results of examinations.

Admission is carried out in accordance with the Regulations on Admission to Master’s Degree Programme of Yerevan State University.

Entrance Examination Questions

  1. Sound changes: types
  2. Semantic-structural groups of vocabulary and their general characteristics
  3. Armenian idioms: types, usage
  4. Classification of vocabulary according to different stages of development
  5. Classification of vocabulary by usage: archaisms and neologisms
  6. Borrowings and foreignisms: terms
  7. Etymological classification of modern Armenian vocabulary
  8. Form: types
  9. Word formation: complexities, types
  10. Derivation: principles of classifying derivational affixes
  11. Lexicography: types of dictionaries
  12. Principles of parts-of-speech classification (M. Abeghyan, G. Sevak, S. Abrahamyan)
  13. Number in nouns in modern Armenian
  14. Case system of nouns in modern Armenian
  15. Presence of nouns in modern Armenian
  16. Inflection in modern Armenian (internal and external, variant inflections)
  17. Derivational affixes: types, usage in modern Armenian
  18. Types of numerals, their composition, and spelling in modern Armenian
  19. Understanding of nominal forms in Armenian grammar: types of nouns, inflection, usage
  20. Modern Armenian verbal nouns
  21. Modern Armenian verbal adjectives
  22. Gender of verbs in modern Armenian
  23. Verb stems in modern Armenian
  24. Indicative mood: tense formation and meanings
  25. Subjunctive, imperative, and conditional moods in modern Armenian
  26. Imperative mood in modern Armenian
  27. Conjugation of causative and inchoative verbs
  28. Irregular and defective verbs in modern Armenian
  29. Shifts in the conjugation system of verbs in modern Armenian
  30. Types of compound verbs in modern Armenian; composition of compound verbs
  31. Conjunctions: types, origin, usage
  32. Types of linkers and their classification by usage (coordinating, repetitive, correlative)
  33. Types and features of relatives and interjections
  34. Means and methods of syntactic connection
  35. Collocations: types
  36. Simple sentences
  37. Expression of subordination in modern Armenian
  38. Subordinate clauses: types in modern Armenian
  39. Complements of nominal elements in modern Armenian: determiners and distributives, punctuation rules
  40. Explanatory words: types, punctuation
  41. Direct objects and indirect acting objects in modern Armenian
  42. Indirect objects of location, separation, means, and relation
  43. Cases of place, time, manner, purpose, cause, condition, reason, and concession
  44. Verbal idioms: composition, usage, punctuation
  45. Complex sentences: types
  46. Subordinate and embedded secondary clauses
  47. Complements of nominal elements in secondary clauses
  48. Direct and indirect acting objects in secondary clauses
  49. Indirect objects of location, separation, means, and relation in secondary clauses
  50. Secondary clauses expressing place, time, manner, degree, and quantity
  51. Secondary clauses expressing purpose, cause, condition, concession
  52. Quoted direct and indirect speech and their transformations
  53. Structural types of compound sentences (subordinate, coordinate, mixed)
  54. General characteristics of functional styles
  55. Stylistic uses of semantic-structural groups of vocabulary
  56. Conciseness, accuracy, and logical coherence in speech
  57. Richness and variety of speech
  58. Means of speech imagery: epithet, comparison, metaphor
  59. Means of speech imagery: homonyms
  60. Antonyms
  61. Euphemism: substitution
  62. Phonetic systems of Eastern and Western Armenian
  63. Main lexical differences between Eastern and Western Armenian
  64. Case system of Western Armenian
  65. Inflection in Western Armenian
  66. Verbal nouns in Western Armenian
  67. Irregular verbs in Western Armenian
  68. Imperative mood in Western Armenian
  69. Conjugation system in Western Armenian
  70. Subject and tasks of translation work, relation to other sciences: translation unit, equivalence, and adequacy
  71. Translation of referential meanings: full and partial equivalence
  72. Borrowings and foreignisms: translation of lexicon without dictionary equivalents; realities and exoticisms
  73. Translation of idiomatic units
  74. Intra-word meaning: principles of translating puns
  75. Types of translational transformations

Literature 

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  2. Aghayan E., Inflection and Conjugation of Modern Armenian, Yerevan, 1967
  3. Aghayan E., Terminology, Yerevan, 1978
  4. Acharyan H., History of the Armenian Language, vols. 1–2, Yerevan, 1940, 1951
  5. Asatryan M., Modern Armenian Language (Simple Sentence), Yerevan, 1987
  6. Asatryan M., Modern Armenian Language (Morphology), Yerevan, 1983
  7. Avetisyan Yu., Comparative Grammar of Eastern and Western Armenian, Yerevan, 2007
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  10. Gareginyan G., Modern Armenian Language (Complex Sentence), Yerevan, 1984
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  12. Yezeqyan L., Armenian Language, Yerevan, 2004
  13. Yezeqyan L., Stylistics, Yerevan, 2003
  14. Ghazaryan S., Concise History of the Armenian Language, Yerevan, 2004
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  17. Petrosyan H., Armenian Linguistic Dictionary, Yerevan, 1987
  18. Jahukyan G., Foundations of Modern Armenian Theory, Yerevan, 1974
  19. Jahukyan G., Syntactic Studies, Yerevan, 2001
  20. Jahukyan G., History of the Armenian Language: Prewriting Period, Yerevan, 1987
  21. Sakapetyan R., Western Armenian Textbook, Yerevan, 2006
  22. Sukiasyan A., Modern Armenian Language (Phonology and Lexicology), Yerevan, 1982
  23. Barkhudarov L., Language and Translation, Moscow, 1975
  24. Vlahov S., Florin S., The Untranslatable in Translation, Moscow, 1980

Contact Information

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Address: Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, 0025, 1 Alex Manoogian (+37460) 710000 info@ysu.am