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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
Keywords: old Romanian, syntax, diachronic investigation, corpus analysis, quantitative observations, syntactic variation, grammaticalization
Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198712350 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198712350.001.0001 |
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