SCURTĂ PRIVIRE ASUPRA SUBORDONATELOR SCURTĂ PRIVIRE ASUPRA SUBORDONATELOR MODERNĂ SI CONTEMPORANĂ
A short view of adverbial clauses in old, modern and contemporary Romanian

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents a diachronic study at the morpho-syntactic level of the Romanian adverbial clauses, with a view to highlighting the morpho-syntactic and semantic status of the subjunctive within this type of subordinate structures. The analysis points out the fact that, on the one hand, in many structures representing all stages of evolution of the Romanian language, the subjunctive retains the modal values identified at the level of the implicit structures (for example, various means of realization of the potential and/ or the irrealis); on the other hand, there is a tendency of its being replaced by certain forms of the future/the presumptive, or later on, starting with the 17th century, by the conditional mood, both forms being more explicit from the semantic and modal points of view.

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