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Veronica Tomescu

Assistant Professor

• BA, 2000, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
• MA, 2001, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Currently working on a PhD in syntax on Romanian prepositions, under the guidance of prof. Alexandra Cornilescu, PhD. The research centres on the behaviour of prepositions in a verbal environment, as heads of a small clause selected by the verb.

Papers published:

• ”Animal” Idioms in English and Hungarian, in Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. V, Syntax – Semantics, Nr. 1/2001
• Spatial Prepositions and Adverbs in Romanian, in Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. V, Syntax – Phonology, Nr. 1/2003
• coauthor of an English textbook for students, English for Physics – Chemistry – Mathematics, Daria Protopopescu, Elena Mihaescu, Veronica Vânatoru Tomescu, Diana Ionita, Press Group Romania, 2002

Translations:

• Ati spus cumva totalitarism? (Did someone say totalitarianism?) Slavoj Žižek, Curtea Veche, 2005
• Teroare si liberalism (Terror and Liberalism), Paul Berman,. Curtea Veche, 2005

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