UNIVERSITATEA SPIRU HARET

FACULTATAEA DE LIMBI ŞI LITERATURI STRĂINE

CATEDRA DE LIMBI GERMANICE ŞI SLAVE
COLECTIVUL DE LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ

TEMATICA EXAMENULUI DE LICENŢĂ

SESIUNEA IULIE 2009, FEBRUARIE 2010

A. Test – grilă computerizat

LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ - SPECIALIZAREA A

1. Morphology: Verbal Categories: Tense, Aspect, Mood, Modality

2. Syntax of the Simple of Sentence: Typology of Predications in English: Verb

Subcategorisation

3. Syntax of the Complex Sentence: Complement Clauses in English

4. English Literature

B. Proba practică: traducere din / în limba engleză maxim 100 de cuvinte

UNIVERSITATEA SPIRU HARET
FACULTATAEA DE LIMBI ŞI LITERATURI STRĂINE
CATEDRA DE LIMBI GERMANICE ŞI SLAVE
COLECTIVUL DE LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ

TEMATICA ŞI BIBLIOGRAFIA EXAMENULUI DE LICENŢĂ

SESIUNEA IULIE 2008, FEBRUARIE 2009
LIMBA ŞI LITERATURA ENGLEZĂ – SPECIALIZAREA A

1. MORPHOLOGY

VERBAL CATEGORIES: TENSE, ASPECT, MOOD, MODALITY

TENSE ─ Semantic descriptions of the Tenses of the Indicative (absolute and

contextual values)
- Present Tense Simple, Present Tense Progressive, Simple Past,
Past Progressive, Present Perfect Simple, Present Perfect Progressive,
Past Perfect Simple, Past Perfect Progressive
─ Means of expressing futurity in English
ASPECT ─ Tense versus Aspect
─ BE-progressive and aspectual classes: recategorisation
─ The perfective aspect in English
MOOD ─ The Indicative versus the Subjunctive: factual versus non-factual
─ The Subjunctive Mood in English (forms, meaning, distribution and use)
- The ‘synthetic’ Subjunctive (values and distribution)
- The ‘analytical’ Subjunctive (values and distribution)
─ Classes of matrix verbs and adjectives in matrix clause that trigger the use of
the Subjunctive
MODALITY ─ Morphological and syntactic behaviour of Modal Verbs
─ Epistemic and deontic classification of modals in English
(CAN, COULD, MUST, MAY, MIGHT, SHALL, SHOULD, WILL, WOULD, OUGHT
TO, NEED, DARE)

BIBLIOGRAFIE
Obligatorie
- Crăiniceanu, I. (2007) Elements of English Morphology, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei
“România de Mâine”
- Duţescu-Coliban, T. (2000) Aspects of English Morphology, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei
“România de Mâine”, p. 150-243
2. SYNTAX OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE: TYPOLOGY OF PREDICATIONS IN
ENGLISH (Verb Subcategorisation)

─ SENTENCE STRUCTURE (constituents and functions)

─ VERB PHRASE STRUCTURE (constituents and functions)
─ SUBCATEGORISATION OF THE VERB (according to its complements and its argument
structure): intransitive verbs
transitive verbs

─ COPULATIVE PREDICATION
- Status of the verb to be
- The predicative – syntactic and logico-semantic classifications
─ INTRANSITIVE PREDICATIONS:
- intransitive verbs with indirect or prepositional object;
- complex intransitives (“phrasal verbs”) with adverbial particle and/or preposition;
- relational intransitives (verbs of possession, reciprocal verbs);
- intransitives with adverbials.
─ TRANSITIVE PREDICATIONS:
- Monotransitives with direct “affected” object and/or “effected” object;
- other subcategories of monotransitives (with direct instrumental object, locative,
experiencer, etc).
- Ditransitives (verbs with double direct object, dative, with prepositional object).
- Possibilities of passivisation.
- Logico-semantic and syntactic classification of basic and derivative causative verbs.
- VERBS WITH A DOUBLE REGIME – subcategory of ergatives.
- Recategorisation of transitive and intransitive verbs.

BIBLIOGRAFIE
Obligatorie
- Şerban, D. (2006) The Syntax of English Predications, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei
“România de Mâine”
- Şerban D., Haţăgan R. and Moisescu D. (2002) English Syntax Workbook, Bucureşti:
Editura Fundaţiei “România de Mâine”, p. 13-27; 43-73.
- Şerban D., Haţăgan R. (2003) Limba engleză contemporană. Sintaxa propoziţiei, in
“Sinteze pentru anul II”, vol. I, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei “România de Mâine”, p. 9-38
sau vezi site:
http://www.spiruharet.ro/Biblioteca_Virtuala/Lb_Ltr_Str/sint/an2/sem1/engleza_lec.pdf
3. SYNTAX OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCE: COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN
ENGLISH

─ Complement Clauses as Subordinate Clauses

─ THAT CLAUSES
- General characteristics; (THAT Clauses as “abstract nominals”; THAT Clauses as
Complement Phrases)
- Distribution and classes of verbs subcategorising for THAT Clauses
- Extraposed Clauses; Expletive IT
─ INFINITIVE CLAUSES
- General characteristics
- The status of FOR as a Complementizer and of TO as Inflection
- The Subject of the Infinitive Clause (Overt and non-overt Subjects of Infinitive
Clauses – various interpretations)
- Indefiniteness of the Subject
- Subject and Object control; the Null Subject PRO; Control Predicates
- Raising Predicates
- FOR-TO Infinitive Clauses and PRO Clauses; syntactic functions
- Raising patterns – various interpretations
- The Nominative + Infinitive Construction; classes of triggers
- The Accusative + Infinitive Construction; classes of triggers

BIBLIOGRAFIE
Obligatorie
- Tudosescu A. (2003) Limba engleză contemporană. Sintaxa frazei, in “Sinteze pentru anul
II”, vol. II, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei “România de Mâine”, p. 75-110.
Vezi site:
http://www.spiruharet.ro/Biblioteca_Virtuala/Lb_Ltr_Str/id.htm

Facultativă
- Cornilescu, A. (1982) English Syntax, volume two, Bucureşti: TUB, p. 115-332; 352-391.
4. ENGLISH LITERATURE

TEMATICA
Se va verifica buna cunoaştere a operelor indicate prin întrebări referitoare la:
• încadrarea în curentul literar şi genul ficţional
• tema dominantă şi temele secundare
• motivele tematice şi simboluri
• structura narativă (povestire, intrigă, secvenţa evenimentelor, precizarea
naratorului, selectarea punctului de vedere)
• tipologia personajelor, tehnicile de caracterizare
• plasarea corectă a unui personaj într-o situaţie definită
• cadrul temporal şi spaţial
• universul şi structura poemului
• figurile de stil (metaforă, hiperbolă, epitet; aliteraţie)
• schema metrică a poemului

LISTA DE AUTORI ŞI OPERE

1. William Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
4. Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
5. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
7. John Keats: Ode to Autumn
8. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
9. Walt Whitman: On the beach at night alone….
10. T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
11. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

BIBLIOGRAFIE

- Sinteze pentru ID, secţiunile dedicate Literaturii Engleze pentru anul I, II şi III

- Sanders, A., 2004, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford University Press
(sau traducerea în limba română)

- Rogers, P. (ed.), 1994, The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, Oxford
University Press