Some Aspects Concerning Word Order and Subordinate Clauses Order in Contemporary Romanian. Norm versus Usage Cover Image

Câteva aspecte privind ordinea cuvintelor si a propozitiilor subordonate în limba româna contemporana între norma si uz
Some Aspects Concerning Word Order and Subordinate Clauses Order in Contemporary Romanian. Norm versus Usage

Author(s): Bianca Miuta
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: word order; dependency relations; constituents of clause, syntactic dependency; expressivity; stylistic effects.

Summary/Abstract: Word order and the sentence syntax are flexible in the Romanian language, but there are situations when they become strict in order to avoid the confusion that may occur between the syntactic functions throughout communication. It often happens that the constituents of the sentences and the sentences become the subject of the subordinated equivalent, breaching the word order rules and generating ambiguous communication or even special stylistic effects in the works of fiction or in ordinary speech

  • Issue Year: 1/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 114-122
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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