CVASI-EXOTISMUL SINONIMELOR DE ORIGINE SLAVĂ DIN LIMBA ROMÂNĂ
THE QUASI-EXOTICISM OF ROMANIAN SYNONYMS OF SLAVIC ORIGIN

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the hypothesis that the Romanian language and its synonymic system was strongly influenced by Slavic languages, and accepted many terms of Slavic origin to double the already existing ones, the present paper aims at highlighting both the special role played by this linguistic influence and the opposition between the exotic and non-exotic character of the Slavic words in synonymic series. This implies, before the proper approach, a brief presentation of synonymy-as a microsystem, together with some aspects of its terminology. The systemic character of the synonyms, in any language, was noticed and analysed by many linguists, starting with E. Coseriu, N. Chomsky, J. Filipec, R. A. Budgov etc. In what terminology is concerned, there was a real explosion of new words naming the same linguistic fact or construction, such as: synonymic series/group/pairs/doublets/chain/string. On the other hand, some of the newly formed words, although exotic, were accepted, but others, maybe too exotic, such as: synonymic derivation, ornamental synonyms, intensifying synonyms etc. could not be imposed in linguistics. The paper will show that the Slavic influence upon the Romanian vocabulary, especially upon the synonymy, cannot be neglected, and allows its study to be performed from different perspectives, depending on the instances, series in which the Slavic terms occur.

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