Syntax of Old Romanian

Zusatztext A major contribution to the historical grammar of Romanian, and indeed to the history of the Romanian language. Informationen zum Autor Gabriela Pana Dindelegan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, and Senior Researcher at the Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics at the Romanian Academy. She is the author or editor of 12 books, including The Grammar of Romanian (OUP, 2013), and over 150 journal articles in Romanian. Klappentext This book provides the first comprehensive synchronic and diachronic 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 and the end of the eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung This book provides the first comprehensive synchronic and diachronic 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 and the end of the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Abbreviations and conventions The contributors 1: Introduction 2: The verb and its arguments 3: Non-finite verb forms and non-finite constructions 4: The nominal phrase 5: Adjectives and adjectival phrases 6: Adverbs and adverbial phrases 7: Prepositions and prepositional phrases 8: Coordination and coordinating conjunctions 9: The complex clause 10: Word order and configurationality 11: Clausal organization and discourse phenomena 12: Conclusions Appendix 1: Corpus Appendix 2: Map. Regional distribution of the main old Romanian texts References Index

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• Authors: Gabriela Pana Dindelegan, Pan&a Dindelegan Gabriela, Gabriela Pana Dindelegan, Gabriela (Emeritus Professor of L Pana Dindelegan
• Assisted by: Gabriela Pana Dindelegan (Editor), Pan& (Editor), Gabriela Pan&259; Dindelegan (Editor), Gabriela Pan&a Dindelegan (Editor), Gabriela (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics Pana Dindelegan (Editor), Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (Editor), Panä& (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9780198712350
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871235-0
• No. of pages: 728
• Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic a; Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics