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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2012  
         
  Article:   SUBJUNCTIVE AND DEFLEXIVITY IN ROMANIAN: A SYNCHRONIC AND CONTRASTIVE APPROACH / SUBJONCTIF ET DÉFLEXIVITÉ EN ROUMAIN: APPROCHE SYNCHRONIQUE ET CONTRASTIVE.

Authors:  DIDIER BOTTINEAU, ROMANA TIMOC-BARDY. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Subjunctive and Deflexivity in Romanian: A Synchronic and Contrastive Approach. The Romanian subjunctive is formed by the combination of a preverbal marker să, whose status is an object of discussion, and of a finite verb inflected either in the indicative (first and second persons) or in the Romance morphological subjunctive (third person). In this study, it is shown that the emergence of the preverbal să is an illustration of the Guillaumean notion of deflexivity. The paper details the workings of deflexivity in the case of the Romanian subjunctive and relates it with analogous facts such as the Romanian infinitive and similar aspects in a few other languages.

Keywords: Romanian, subjunctive, deflexivity, Gustave Guillaume, psychomechanics. 

  
         
     
         
         
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