INFLECTIONAL AND PREPOSITIONAL CASE MARKING IN THE ROMANIAN MORPHO-SYNTACTIC SYSTEM: THE DATIVE
INFLECTIONAL AND PREPOSITIONAL CASE MARKING IN THE ROMANIAN MORPHO-SYNTACTIC SYSTEM: THE DATIVE

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at examining the domain of case theory with respect to the alternation of inflectional and prepositional case marking in the Romanian morpho-syntactic system. It will be shown that Romanian has an intermediate position on the synthetic-analytic scale, in that the genitive and dative cases are marked both (a) inflectionally and (b) syntactically (cf. GOR, 2013). In this respect, this paper addresses issues concerning the synthetic and analytic marking of the dative. We will show that in standard Romanian, the inflectional dative is replaced by a prepositional construction (la+ ACC) under specific conditions- that is, when the first component of the DP cannot host the specific dative case-marker. On the other hand, in non-standard Romanian the P construction la+ ACC appears very often even under no morphological constraints

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