Category Archives: LINGUISTICS

Linguistic reflections of the eminent critic

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Vardan Z. Petrosyan

N. Aghbalyan is known to the Armenian community as a famous critic, public and state figure. This article is the first attempt to identify Aghbalyan as armenologist-linguist. There are two main directions in his linguistic heritage that stand out – questions about theory and the etymology of the Armenian language. If in the first direction he is adjacent the theory of Ghapantsyan about the Armenian language being bilayer, in the matter of language-specific material, i.e. – separate theoretical excitations and lexical analysis, he is very independent and original. Especially the works of his second direction are characterized by special insight of thought and academic scientific content, which is very typical for the diversified written heritage of Aghbalyan thinker. His armenological observations would bring honor to any famous Armenian linguist.

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Ruzan H. Virabyan

Stylistic significance, emotionally-expressive coloring of indeclinable parts of speech is quite limited compared to the previous group of parts of speech. However, these parts of speech have a very interesting and peculiar application in writer’s works.
The most typical use of adverbs is the designation of temporal, spatial, qualitative, quantitative, and other signs of action.
Expressive possibilities of prepositions are rather poor. They are reflected in structure of the sentence by their repetition, by means of connection with a particle and its parallel usage.
The role of conjunctions is syntactical and morphological which are expressed both by words and sentences.
Modal words that express the speaker’s attitude to the above, also define the meaning of any part of speech, giving it a distinctive color.
The interjections differ from other parts of speech by their pronunciation, by stress, interjection.
Thus, observation of the stylistic value of Norayr Adalyan’s works shows that parts of speech, such as adverb, conjunction, particles, modal words, interjection also have expressive means and affect the writer’s works with their bright colours.

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Siranush G. Hovhannisyan
The article discusses the specific role of the text. Text is explored in terms of history and culture. It is also emphasized that in contrast with other linguistic units, the text depends on the human desires, that is an idea which can be expressed in words, if the author wants, but the idea would not become a text, as the author did not make it into the text.

This unit of the language is evaluated in terms of time and space in this article. Both time and space are divided into two aspects – historical and personal.

In fact, the text is defined as the carrier of social life in such a way or another.

Ruzan H. Virabyan
The article concerns the stereotypes of analyzing difficulties in Armenian language with their types and stereotype formula, which have subordinate and coordinative relation, and they have their individual place in the stereotypes of modern Armenian word building system.

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Siranush G. Hovhannisyan
The article touches upon one of the eternal problems of linguistics, origin of language. The problem is placed on the platforms of anthropology, philosophy- human and objective reality, human and society, thus shows that this is not purely linguistical problem. There is an idea that language is a form of human consciousness and an existence of reality for inner world. Finally, there is a conclusion that mobility of language is a serious barrier for clear definition of human language.

The article is summarized in thought that explanation of language origin will be possible if ever will be described and explained the origin of human.

Siranush G. Hovhannisyan
The article touches upon the problem of electronic text and the orientation of its study.

The electronic text is related to the computer, that’s why the researchers consider it as a subject of study of Computer linguistics. The article shows that the electorinc text is an indicidual kind of text and it should be studied not by the Computer linguistics but by the Text linguistics. Also in the article are seen relations between electoring text and other types of text. There are some abservations and conclusions in the article.

Lexical and grammatical review

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Norayr B. Poghosyan
The article is devoted to the linguistic relationship between Armenian and Hungarian. Armenians have settled in Hungary since the X-XI centuries. In the late Middle Ages (17-18 centuries) Armenians gained economic and judicial autocracy in Hungary; many archival documents were later published. Grigor Govrikyan, for example, published many archival documents of Transylvanian Armenians. Leaning upon these documents, the author of this article illustrates that Hungarian-Armenians utilized many European words in their language. Among them, Hungarian ones constitute a great number, e.g. guba (wine store), lants (chain), nemish (nobleman), chibgay (lace), valos (reponse), etc.

Other European loan words as well as the characteristic features of the dialect of Armenian- Hungarians are also discussed in the article.

A Pragmalinguistic Study

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Seda K. Gasparyan, Gohar R. Harutyunyan
The paper aims at studying Taner Akcam’s considerations of the Armenian Genocide and brings out his point of view concerning the responsibility of the Turkish Government and the Turks in general for the shameful, unforgettable and unpardonable crime their predecessors committed against the peaceful Armenian population in Western Armenia. His firm belief is that it is only by carrying the burden of responsibility that Turkey will be able to get over the syndrome of denial, “look into the eyes of the obvious truth” and cease to violate the undeniable historical reality in the perception and understanding of the coming younger generations of Turkey.

The application of the pragmalinguistic approach to the study of the book helps to reveal the meanings and shades of meanings implied in the text.

(Comparative Analysis)

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Albert A. Makaryan, Haikanush A. Sharuryan
In this article, we have tried to analyze the play, Ancient Gods by well known Armenian playwright Levon Shant and the novel The Spire by famous English novelist William Golding using comparative and typological methods. We have attempted to reveal the generalities and differences of these two works.

From the comparative analysis of Levon Shant’s drama, Ancient Gods and William Golding’s novel The Spire, we have been able to clarify that the journey of the characters in both works toward God traverse through an earthly love (sin). This same issue is present in The Spire where Jocelyn has parallel relations – love, faith toward God – an attempt is made to construct it through the spire, however this also does not occur.