Valori contextuale ale imperfectului în limba română actuală
Contextual meanings of the past tense in contemporary Romanian

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the basic semantic features of the Romanian past tense (rom. imperfect), the present article presents some contextual meanings of this form of the verb. The relationship between the aspectual feature [- perfective] and the status as anaphoric tense, on the one hand, and the “flexibility” of the Romanian past tense (rom. imperfect), on the other, is highlighted, while showing that this tense – the tense of storytelling – carries complex significances in certain contexts.

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