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The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology

Uta, Oana (Lector in Romanian, Lector in Romanian, University of Oxford) & Pana Dindelegan, Gabriela (Senior Researcher and Head of the Grammar Department, Senior Researcher and Head of the Grammar Department, Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics) & Dragomirescu, Adina (Researcher, Researcher, Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics) & Maiden, Martin (Professor of the Romance Languages, Professor of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford)

The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology

The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology

The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology

 

This book offers the first comprehensive account of the development of the complex morphological system of Romanian. It shows how the controversial origins of many of the distinctive morphological features of the language have important implications for broader historical Romance linguistics and indeed for morphological theory more generally.


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Beschrijving The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology

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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9780198829485
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544
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616
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1
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Hardback
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Engels
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OUP Oxford

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