This book is a comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian. It draws on an extensive and 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, when the modernization of Romanian is considered to have begun. The book offers a description of the syntax of old Romanian written in a language other than Romanian. The framework for discussion is modern, both theoretically and terminologically. The perspective is both synchronic and diachronic: synchronic in the sense that, in a given ... More

This book is a comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian. It draws on an extensive and 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, when the modernization of Romanian is considered to have begun. The book offers a description of the syntax of old Romanian written in a language other than Romanian. The framework for discussion is modern, both theoretically and terminologically. The perspective is both synchronic and diachronic: synchronic in the sense that, in a given period with precise boundaries, the book aims to give a quasi-exhaustive corpus analysis; diachronic in the sense that the two periods of Romanian (old and modern Romanian) are compared. The general perspective is typological and comparative, focusing on those phenomena that are considered specific to Romanian (either in Romance or in the Balkan area).