Views on the coordination relationship in the contemporary Romanian language Cover Image

Consideraţii asupra raportului de coordonare în limba română contemporană
Views on the coordination relationship in the contemporary Romanian language

Author(s): Cipriana-Elena Peica
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: coordination; syntax; syntactic relationship; syntactic relation; the Romanian language

Summary/Abstract: The coordination relation/relationship has multiple definitions in the specialised literature. Inhomogeneity is present even in the terminology used by some authors: some prefer the phrase coordination syntactic relationships, while others prefer the phrase coordination syntactic relations. However, a constant feature is that grammars talk of coordination between parts of sentence - coordination within a sentence - and coordination between main clauses or subordinate clauses. It can be said that the coordination relationship is more frequent since it can occur between parts of a sentence, within a clause, a sentence and a text. There can be two or more (theoretically, an unlimited number of) coordinated syntactic units, they can have any level of importance (main, secondary, intermediate) and they can occur at the level of most syntactic units. We are going to present in our paper some of the definitions of the coordination relation/relationship that can be found in literature, the peculiarities of the coordination relationship in the contemporary Romanian language, and controversial elements relating to this syntactic relationship.

  • Issue Year: 17/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 215-228
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian