The syntax of old Romanian / edited by Gabriela Pana Dindelegan ; Martin Maiden, consultant editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela, editor.

Maiden, Martin, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 19.

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanian language--Syntax.

Romanian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (727 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book provides the first comprehensive synchronic and diachronic overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century.

Contents:

Cover; The Syntax of Old Romanian; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Detailed contents and author attributions; Series preface; Preface; Contents and readership; Corpus; Methods and objectives; The structure of the book; Final remarks; Abbreviations and conventions; The contributors; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Presenting the corpus: typologizing, dating, and locating the texts; 1.1.1 The period under study; 1.1.2 Types of texts; 1.1.3 Dating the texts; 1.1.4 Provenance of the texts; 1.1.5 Editions used; 1.1.6 Problems of interpretation; 1.2 Phonological features of old Romanian

2.1.3 The imperative2.1.4 Tense and aspect forms; 2.1.4.1 The simple and compound past; 2.1.4.2 The pluperfect and double compound perfect; 2.1.4.3 Future periphrases; 2.1.4.4 Aspectual values of simple and periphrastic forms; 2.1.4.5 Auxiliary encliticization; 2.1.4.6 The sequence of tenses (SOT) parameter; 2.1.5 Final remarks; 2.2 Pronominal clitics: clitic ordering, clitic clusters; 2.2.1 Preliminary remarks; 2.2.2 The position of clitics in the clause; 2.2.2.1 Position relative to the verb; 2.2.2.2 Clitics in first, second, and third position

2.2.8 Clitic double realization on distinct verbal heads2.2.9 Morphophonological changes: proclisis and î- prothesis; -u deletion; 2.2.10 Mesoclisis; 2.2.11 Clitic clusters; 2.2.12 Final remarks; 2.3 The syntactic frame of verbs and syntactic variation; 2.3.1 Types of syntactic organization of the verb; 2.3.2 Variations of the argumental configurations of the verb; 2.3.2.1 Preliminary remarks; 2.3.2.2 Variant arguments; 2.3.3 (Non-argumental) variation between reflexive and non-reflexive verbs; 2.3.4 Variation in the selection of the preposition; 2.3.5 General characteristics of variations

2.3.5.1 Characteristics in common with MR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-178089-8

0-19-102114-8