VARIATION IN THE DIRECT OBJECT CONSTRUCTION IN ROMANIAN OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES Cover Image

VARIAȚIE ÎN CONSTRUCȚIA OBIECTULUI DIRECT ÎN ROMÂNA DIN SECOLELE AL XVII-LEA ȘI AL XVIII-LEA
VARIATION IN THE DIRECT OBJECT CONSTRUCTION IN ROMANIAN OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES

Author(s): Simona-Ştefania Neagu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Morphology, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Old Romanian; direct object; pe marking; clitic doubling; original documents

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents some variations regarding pe marking and clitic doubling in Old Romanian. Our corpus consists of original documents from the 17th and 18th centuries. We notice that the marker pe is usual with [+human] direct objects, especially with proper names and personal pronouns. The relative care is used mainly without the marker pe. Clitic doubling is a more inconsistent phenomenon, particularly in the case of the postverbal object realised by a common or a proper noun. A frequent pattern is the double realisation of the pronominal clitic attested in the context of analytical verb forms

  • Issue Year: 8/2022
  • Issue No: 2 (16)
  • Page Range: 94-107
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian