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This book provides the first comprehensive 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, the date of
the earliest attested Romanian texts, and the end of the eighteenth
century, generally considered to mark the start of the
modernization of Romanian. Gabriela Pana Dindelegan and her
co-authors adopt both a synchronic and diachronic approach by
providing a detailed corpus analysis in a given period, while also
comparing old and modern Romanian. They examine the evolution of a
variety of syntactic phenomena, including the elimination or
diminishing of certain facts or generalization of others, the total
or partial grammaticalization of phenomena, competition between
structures, and cases of syntactic variation. The book takes a
typological and comparative perspective, focusing on those
phenomena that are considered specific to Romanian (either on the
Romance or in the Balkan area), and adopts a modern framework while
still remaining accessible to readers from any background.
This book offers the first comprehensive account of the development
of the Romanian morphological system. Romanian is one of the most
morphologically complex Romance languages, but has remained
relatively understudied compared with better-known languages such
as French and Spanish. Following an introduction that provides an
outline of the history of Romanian, its writing system and major
typological characteristics, and the major patterns of allomorphy,
chapters in this volume explore a range of fascinatingly complex
aspects of Romanian grammar whose structure and history have to
date been largely inaccessible to the English-speaking world. Among
the most distinctive morphological characteristics of Romanian
discussed by the authors are its inflexional case system; the
highly unpredictable formation of the plural; the existence of a
non-finite verb form that appears to be the continuation of the
Latin supine; the near-absence of distinctive subjunctive
morphology; and the complex patterns of allomorphy brought about by
successive sound change. The frequently controversial origins of
many of these developments have important implications for broader
historical Romance linguistics and indeed for morphological theory
more generally.
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