THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AMONG THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES: SOME SPECIFICITIES OF ITS EVOLUTION, PERCEIVED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE LANGUAGE PSYCHOMECHANICS Cover Image

LE ROUMAIN PARMI LES LANGUES ROMANES: QUELQUES SPÉCIFICITÉS DE SON ÉVOLUTION, OBSERVÉES À LA LUMIÈRE DE LA PSYCHOMÉCANIQUE DU LANGAGE
THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AMONG THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES: SOME SPECIFICITIES OF ITS EVOLUTION, PERCEIVED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE LANGUAGE PSYCHOMECHANICS

Author(s): Alvaro Rocchetti
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Romanian; Romance languages; English; specifics; auxiliaries; infinitive;

Summary/Abstract: The study’s objective is to adopt a new vision, inspired by the approaches of language psychomechanics, concerning some specificities of the Romanian language, compared to other Romance languages. The following aspects are examined in particular: nominally, the development of the neutral and, verbally, the infinitive, the past and future tense, the auxiliary forms ‘to have’ and ‘to be’, as well as those of the subjunctive. When confronted with the forms of other Romance languages, these specificities prove to be innovations particular to the Romanian language: they testify the exploration of new fields, which the other Western Romance languages often only outline.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2020
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 9-14
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French