Admission Requirements
Applicants to the History and Linguistics of the Armenian Language program must hold a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent qualification.
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree in the same field are admitted on a competitive basis, based on academic achievements during previous studies.
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree in another field are admitted on a competitive basis, based on the results of exams conducted according to the Bachelor’s final certification curriculum of the program.
Admission is carried out in accordance with the Regulation on admission to the Master’s degree program of Yerevan State University.
Admission Questionnaire
1. Principles of periodization and the scientific division of the history of the Armenian language
2. Names of the Armenians: Hay, Armen, Somekh, and the associated original places of settlement
3. Existing theories on the nature of the Armenian language
4. The invention of Armenian writing, opinions in philology on the Mesropian alphabet, and dating
5. Hypotheses on pre-Mesropian Armenian scripts
6. Phonological system of Old Armenian (Grabar) and its historical changes
7. Numerical order in Armenian (Grabar, Middle Armenian, Modern Armenian)
8. Morphosyntactic system in Armenian
9–18. Historical development of various grammatical endings and phonological systems in Grabar
19–26. Historical development of verb forms and derivations in Grabar
27. Grabar conjugation system
28–33. Historical development of present, past, and compound tenses in Grabar
34. Negative conjugation in Armenian
35. Expression of grammatical gender in Grabar
36–39. Causative, defective, irregular, and variant-root verbs in Grabar
40. Origins of the modal auxiliaries «կը» and «պիտի»
41. Aorist in Grabar and its historical development
42–44. Numerical expressions and nominal forms in Grabar
45–50. Personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, and reciprocal pronouns in Armenian
51. Prepositions and prepositional phrases in Grabar, and their historical development
52. General characteristics of Grabar vocabulary: native and borrowed layers
53. Features of Hellenized Armenian
54. Formation of Middle Armenian as a state language
55. Formation of the national Armenian language, and comparative characteristics of Eastern and Western Armenian dialects
Linguistics Questions
1. Contemporary issues in general linguistics
2. Origin and development of language
3. Language and linguistics
4. Language and thought
5. Approaches to language study
6. Linguistic and interdisciplinary frameworks
7. G. B. Jahukyan’s theory of universal language
8. F. de Saussure’s general linguistic perspectives
9. N. Chomsky’s generative grammar and its foundations
10. Main directions of structural linguistics
11. Phonological laws: phoneme and phonetics
12. Lexical meaning, semantic triangle
13. Means of grammatical expression
14. Types of linguistic influence (cross-linguistic contact, borrowing, interaction)
15. Genetic classification of languages, linguistic typology
Contact Information:
Phone: (+374 60) 710 622 (inner line: 76-22)
Email: armphilology@ysu.am
