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Ileana BACIU
ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY: WORD FORMATION
Format 16/70x100, 272 pag., ISBN 973-575-393-6
Ioana ZIRRA
Knowledge of word structure is in many respects of a kind with knowledge of
sound structure and sentence structure. It is part of what a language user has to know
in order to be regarded as a speaker of the language and, for that reason, it is part of
that knowledge of language which linguists regard as properly linguistic. Hence, it is
something which linguistic theory has to account for, in the same way that it accounts
for knowledge of phonological patterns or knowledge of syntactic structures.
Traditionally, grammarians have distinguished between two types of complexity of
word-structure: one type of complexity is due to the presence of inflections and another
type is due to derivational elements. This distinction, though often overlooked by
structuralists, is an important one.
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Adresabilitate: studenţi, profesori, specialişti
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE BRITISH 19 TH CENTURY – THE VICTORIAN AGE – TO THE
HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND IDEAS
Format 16/70x100, 168 pag., ISBN 973-575-487-8
The course has been organised into modules of three lectures, each dedicated to
the survey of, first, the novel, then the poetry, then the essays, which could be obviously
repeated three times, roughly, during the fifteen weeks of the first semester. There can
be made allowance in this way for one or two general introductory lectures and,
optionally, for one drama lecture. This rigid – and to a great extent artificial – sequence
of the lectures has been considered to offer, firstly, the advantage of the generic
approach to literature, which is otherwise lost in the survey format, namely, the
advantage of comparing and repeating information when placed in clearcut modules
that apparently differ in topic, when in effect they refer to and analyse the same real
stream of cultural pehnomena; and, ostensibly, the comparison could work efficiently
not only over the different generic repertoires, but also within one and the same genre –
offering in this way, it is hoped, a more clearly didactic outline of the age as a historical
whole repeatedly reviewed. Secondly, in splitting Victorian literature into the Victorian
novel, then the poetry and the essay, the lecturer has tried to guard against the
dilettante memories of unmotivated students who might either reduce the Victorian age
to the age of the great novels and forget the poetry representatives or the essay-writers‟
names, or even worse, who might get all of them „graciously‟ mixed up, not being sure
either at the exam or a few years hence whether somebody wrote fiction, poetry or prose
of ideas; this would be an extremly likely contingency given the literary prolixity of the
Victorian age to which the 20th century readership‟s hurry can hardly measure up.
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