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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2004  
         
  Article:   THE ROMANIAN SUPINE AS A REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSE.

Authors:  ADRIANA TODEA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The analysis of the Romanian supine from a Relational Grammar perspective reveals the fact that there are no morphological differences between the supine and the participle, which invalidates the terminology used in the Romanian traditional grammar, which presents them as different non-finite forms. Actually, what we call "the supine" in Romanian is a chomeurized participial form. The only distinction to what we traditionally call "the participle" in Romanian is the presence of the prepositional complementizer/ marker ''''de'''' which signals that in the case of the "supine" the entire lower clause is chomeurized, not the internal predicate alone. The Romanian supine-based reduced relative clause supports such an analysis provided that we treat the noun phrase as a sub-clausal structure.  
         
     
         
         
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