Sintaksa rumunjskog neupravnog govora u okviru Romanije
Syntax of Romanian indirect speech within Romania

Summary/Abstract: Romanian, as a Romance language, generally speaking, certainly shares with other Romance idioms the characteristics of syntax of the indirect speech (we can mention the loss of the classical Latin construction accusativus cum infinitivo after verba dicendi or declarandi and the weakening of the hypothetical value of the Latin conjunction si and the generalization of its use in the indirect questions of total interrogation, where it gradually substitutes the interrogative particles). However, the syntax of the Romanian indirect speech shows some considerable specificities, such as the absence of the time axis shift, the sequence of tenses or the maintaining of the inversion in the indirect question. Although we cannot speak about a direct Croatian, but Slavonic influence, a comparison between some Croatian and Romanian constructions remains interesting. The chosen syntactical characteristics of the indirect speech (subordinators, which reflect the essence of the process of integration of someone’s utterance into the syntactical structure of an another sentence; subject and verbal nucleus of the subordinate clause, that is the mood and the tense of its verb) can serve as a basis for a dynamic classification of the Romance languages, that is for a quantified deamination of the position of Romanian inside Romania according to the chosen syntactical criterion.

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