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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2001  
         
  Article:   THE UNPERSONAL VERBAL FORMS – NOTIONAL OR QUALIFYING MEANINGS?.

Authors:  G.G. NEAMŢU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Unpersonal Verbal Forms – Notional or Qualifying Meanings? The study focuses upon two problems of general grammar, applied to Romanian language. 1.The notional status of unpersonal verbal forms. It is asserted and demonstrated that they do not have notional meanings (i. e. they do not express notions), but qualifying meanings (i. e. they express notes of the notions), that is processual meanings (the Gerund, the Infinitive) and quality meanings (the Participle). 2. The terminological distinction denominate / express in morphology. The unpersonal verbal forms, (including the Infinitive) do not denominate the processes (i. e. they do not ‘name’ them), but express them, and, accordingly, the current definitions are based on an inaccurate terminology. (Out of the notional words – name, pronoun, adjective, numeral, verb, adverb – only the noun and its substitutes denominate; all the others, including the verb, express).  
         
     
         
         
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