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CASE MARKING IN ISTRO-ROMANIAN
CASE MARKING IN ISTRO-ROMANIAN

Author(s): Ionuț Geană
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Other Language Literature
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Istro-Romanian morphology; IR word order; morphosyntactic innovations; Eastern Romance varieties;

Summary/Abstract: Case Marking in Istro-Romanian. This paper focuses on the key elements of case marking in Istro-Romanian (IR). Similar to Daco Romanian, IR has a four-case system (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative), added by the vocative (not to be dealt with specifically in this paper). As a member of the so called Balkan Sprachbund, IR nouns oppose nominative-accusative to genitive dative. Pronouns, on the other hand, show a full paradigm, with specific forms for each case (in line with all other Eastern Romance varieties). For the oblique, IR has both stressed/strong and non-stressed/clitic forms, however they have a different distribution than in standard and sub standard Daco-Romanian. Differential object marking is virtually unheard of (with minor cases in northern IR). Indirect object doubling is rare(r), with possibly different pragmatic values than in Daco Romanian.

  • Issue Year: 65/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 173-187
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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