The Syntax of Old Romanian

Edited by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

The first comprehensive account of the syntax of old Romanian targeted at a non-Romanian readership
Clearly structured and accessible to readers from any background
Examines an extensive old Romanian corpus and provides detailed analysis

The Syntax of Old Romanian

Edited by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

Description

This book provides the first comprehensive 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, the date of the earliest attested Romanian texts, and the end of the eighteenth century, generally considered to mark the start of the modernization of Romanian. Gabriela Pană Dindelegan and her co-authors adopt both a synchronic and diachronic approach by providing a detailed corpus analysis in a given period, while also comparing old and modern Romanian. They examine the evolution of a variety of syntactic phenomena, including the elimination or diminishing of certain facts or generalization of others, the total or partial grammaticalization of phenomena, competition between structures, and cases of syntactic variation. The book takes a typological and comparative perspective, focusing on those phenomena that are considered specific to Romanian (either on the Romance or in the Balkan area), and adopts a modern framework while still remaining accessible to readers from any background.

The Syntax of Old Romanian

Edited by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

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

The Syntax of Old Romanian

Edited by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

Author Information

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.

Contributors:

Raluca Brăescu, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest
Blanca Croitor, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest.
Andreea Dinică, Romanian Academy.
Adina Dragomirescu, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest.
Mihaela Gheorghe, Transylvania University of Brasov and Romanian Academy
Martin Maiden, University of Oxford
Dana Manea, Romanian Academy.
Margareta Manu Magda, Romanian Academy
Carmen Mîrzea Vasile, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest.
Isabela Nedelcu, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest.
Alexandru Nicolae, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest.
Irina Nicula Paraschiv, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest.
Dana Niculescu, University of Amsterdam.
Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest
Camelia Stan, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest.
Emanuela Timotin, Romanian Academy
Oana Ută Bărbulescu, University of Oxford and University of Bucharest
Andra Vasilescu, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest
Rodica Zafiu, Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest

The Syntax of Old Romanian

Edited by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

Reviews and Awards

"A major contribution to the historical grammar of Romanian, and indeed to the history of the Romanian language." --Rudolf Windisch, Revue de Linguistique Romane