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ON THE USE OF COMPLEMENTISERS IN ISTRO-ROMANIAN
ON THE USE OF COMPLEMENTISERS IN ISTRO-ROMANIAN

Author(s): Ramona Cătălina Corbeanu, Ionuț Geană
Subject(s): Morphology, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Istro-Romanian syntax; (Eastern) Romance dialectology; IR complementisers; word order;

Summary/Abstract: On the Use of Complementisers in Istro-Romanian. This article deals with the description of certain aspects of the complementiser system in Istro-Romanian (hereinafter IR), a severely endangered Romance variety. The prototypical IR complementisers are ke (‘that’), neca (subjunctive marker), and in rarer occurrences se (‘that/if’). Their main features are their high degree of heterogeneity, as well as their occurrence in various syntactic configurations that either makes IR pattern with Daco-Romanian (its closest sister), or sets IR apart across Romance. Our analysis is carried out on a corpus made of: Traian Cantemir’s Texte istroromâne (data collected during 1932-1933), Sextil Pușcariu’s Studii istroromâne. Texte I (1906-1926), Sârbu, R., V. Frățilă’s Dialectul istroromân (1982-1996). Among the situations at which we will take a closer look, we should mention the occurrence of the complementiser ke ‘that’ in places where Daco-Romanian and other Romance varieties would not use it or would use it differently.

  • Issue Year: 67/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-86
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English
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