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Comparative constructions in old Romanian [PDF]

Diacronia, 2017
In this paper, we analyse degree adjectival constructions in old Romanian texts. We focus on the comparative of superiority, taking into account in the first place the grammaticalization stage of the degree markers.
Raluca Brăescu
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(Pseudo)cleft constructions in old Romanian [PDF]

Diacronia, 2017
The article examines the syntactic and semantic features of cleft sentences in Old Romanian (OR) as compared to Modern Romanian (MR). The clefting strategy in MR can only produce pseudo-cleft constructions (identifying structures with free relative ...
Mihaela Gheorghe
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The interjection in old Romanian texts [PDF]

Diacronia, 2017
The paper tries to identify the special problems posed by the study of interjection based on the examination of a corpus of texts from the old Romanian (1600–1780), referring to texts from modern Romanian.
Margareta Manu Magda
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Old Romanian Meteorological Terms

Present Environment and Sustainable Development, 2016
This paper aims to present the evolution of the meteorological terminology, from the 17th century Grigore Ureche’s chronicle and bishop Amfilohie Hotiniul's manuscript on Physics (Moldavia, late 18th Century) to the mid 19th century writings of Teodor ...
Pelin Liviu-Ioan, Apostol Liviu
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Old Romanian pluralized mass and abstract nouns [PDF]

Diacronia, 2017
The analysis of a rich old Romanian corpus shows that the ‘pluralization’ of mass and abstract nouns is extremely frequent in old Romanian. The semantic effects of pluralization are similar for mass and abstract nouns, consisting in the creation of ...
Gabriela Pană Dindelegan
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Features of noun quantifiers in old Romanian [PDF]

Diacronia, 2017
This study is part of a collective research on the historical morphology of Romanian, conducted at the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. This analysis approaches in detail a specific issue in the diachrony of noun quantifiers,
Camelia Stan
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Aspects of coordination by junction in Old Romanian [PDF]

Diacronia, 2016
The approach of coordination by junction in a diachronic perspective aimed at establishing the discursive values of the connectors, in the integrated frame of these syntactic relation patterns, and the manner in which the literary norm selected the ...
Ștefan Găitănaru
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On binominal qualitative constructions in Old Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017
The paper identifies and analyzes major types of binominal qualitative constructions in Old Romanian. The corpus presented in the paper registers three types of double-definite binominals and two types of single-definite binominals.
Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru, Camelia Uşurelu
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De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014
Romanian inherited the Romance de-genitive from Latin. In the 16th century, the de-genitive had an archaic character and was used in the formal register.
Camelia Stan
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Morphosyntactic features of the indefinite tot in old Romanian [PDF]

Diacronia, 2017
This article establishes and discusses a series of morphosyntactic features of the indefinite tot ‘whole, all’ in old Romanian, relating them to modern Romanian: forms that disappeared from the language, a wider variety of singular and plural genitive ...
Isabela Nedelcu
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