SUBJUNCTIVE AND DEFLEXIVITY IN ROMANIAN: A SYNCHRONIC AND CONTRASTIVE APPROACH Cover Image

SUBJONCTIF ET DÉFLEXIVITÉ EN ROUMAIN: APPROCHE SYNCHRONIQUE ET CONTRASTIVE
SUBJUNCTIVE AND DEFLEXIVITY IN ROMANIAN: A SYNCHRONIC AND CONTRASTIVE APPROACH

Author(s): Didier Bottineau, Romana Timoc-Bardy
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Romanian; subjunctive; deflexivity; Gustave Guillaume; psychomechanics.

Summary/Abstract: Subjunctive and Deflexivity in Romanian: A Synchronic and Contrastive Approach. The Romanian subjunctive is formed by the combination of a preverbal marker să, whose status is an object of discussion, and of a finite verb inflected either in the indicative (first and second persons) or in the Romance morphological subjunctive (third person). In this study, it is shown that the emergence of the preverbal să is an illustration of the Guillaumean notion of deflexivity. The paper details the workings of deflexivity in the case of the Romanian subjunctive and relates it with analogous facts such as the Romanian infinitive and similar aspects in a few other languages.

  • Issue Year: 57/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 87-98
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French
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