Title: | The Grammaticalization of Perfect Auxiliaries in Romanian. Historical and Dialectal Aspects |
Authors: | Manuela Nevaci, Aida Todi |
Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LIV (1-2), p. 137-150 |
p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
Place: | București |
Year: | 2009 |
Abstract: | The auxiliaries (developed into free or bound morphemes) originating from verbs represent a classic case of grammaticalization. The meaning we assigned to the term is the one regularly employed in Romanian linguistics: “the process of transformation of an independent lexical item into a functional morpheme, by losing its lexical-grammatical independence, in the evolution of a language or in its transfer from a language to another” (DSL); DSL provides as main example the case of “all the auxiliaries derived from independent lexical items and developed into free morphemes, or in some cases even bound ones (the ‘perfect compus’ auxiliary in Romanian am cântat ‘have-1sg. sung’ (free morpheme), as compared to the future auxiliary in French, which merged with the verb (je chanterai ‘I will sing’)”. The evolution from independent item to the status of morpheme being a phenomenon with a slow, gradual development, our aim is to highlight a few stages of this transformation from Latin to Romanian (with all its dialects), with references to older intermediary stages of grammaticalization, disappeared nowadays in standard Romanian or preserved regionally, or as archaic elements in Daco-Romanian. |
Language: | English |
Links: | pdf html |
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