OBSERVAȚII ASUPRA LIMBII ȘI STILULUI LUI NICOLAE BĂLCESCU ÎN CORESPONDENȚĂ
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE AND STYLE OF NICOLAE BĂLCESCU IN CORRESPONDENCE

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Bălcescu's correspondence provides us with valuable material on the configuration of the norms of literary language in Wallachia between 1838 and 1852. The letters reveal a series of linguistic features (phonetic, morphological and lexical) that are important for the history of the Romanian literary language in the 19th century, a century that was primarily identified with the confrontations related to the creation and imposition of the supra-dialectal norm, which acted to remove from the language strictly regional and archaic elements. We also note the writer's contribution to the development and modernisation of literary vocabulary in general at a time when all the problems of literary language were subordinated to the idea of transforming it into a modern instrument in terms of its expressive possibilities and national unity, responding to the needs of an evolving culture.

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