Despre „va + conjunctiv” în limba română contemporană
On ”va + subjunctive” in Romanian

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to illustrate that va + subjunctive future: va să cânte [will sing], va să vină [will come], used in Old Romanian alongside va + infinitive future: va cânta [will sing], va veni [will come], is still used in Modern Romanian to express future time reference, despite claims that it disappeared from the language by the end of the 17th century (cf. Valeria Guțu -Romalo, Le futur en Roumain aux XVIe – XVIIIe siècles). Various examples taken from religious texts, newspapers articles, TV shows, commercials, etc. will prove that va + subjunctive is still an active means of expressing future time reference in Romanian, while emphasizing on some distinctive features, such as: limited usage (it is used only with verbs like a fi [to be], a veni [to come], a judeca [to judge], a zice [to say]), low frequency or a paradigm restricted to the 3rd person singular.

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