NON-FINITE VERBAL FORMS IN OLD ROMANIAN (16TH – 18TH CENTURIES)
NON-FINITE VERBAL FORMS IN OLD ROMANIAN (16TH – 18TH CENTURIES)

Summary/Abstract: Our paper analyses the structure and the evolution of the Romanian non-finite verbal forms during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, according to their use in authentic religious written texts. Our study will prove some kind of stability of these verbal forms despite their artificial variants attested by the first grammars which were following a Latin model that did not totally characterize the Romanian verbal system. As we will see, there were mentioned some artificial non-finite forms in the grammars publishedat the end of the 18th century, forms that are not attested by the texts we have studied, but were created out of an excessive fidelity to the model, in this case, the Latin model.

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