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The Syntax of Old Romanian

Gabriela Pană Dindelegan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:3rd Mar '16

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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 Pană 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.

A major contribution to the historical grammar of Romanian, and indeed to the history of the Romanian language. * Rudolf Windisch, Revue de Linguistique Romane *

ISBN: 9780198712350

Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 44mm

Weight: 1188g

728 pages