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Title The syntax of old Romanian / edited by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan ; consultant editor, Martin Maiden
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 19
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 19.
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
Summary A comprehensive synchronic and diachronic overview of the syntax of old Romanian, targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the 16th century and the end of the 18th century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Romanian language -- To 1500 -- Syntax
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
Romanian language -- Syntax
Form Electronic book
Author Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela, editor.
ISBN 9780191021145
0191021148
9780191780899
0191780898