In this article, I investigate the occurrence of rom. curând (engl. soon) in the oldest Romanian texts in order to find arguments to sustain one of the two different hypotheses concerning the morphological status of the word in this stage. The morphological and syntactical hypostases of curând prove that it was already an adverb in the 16th century. The process of changing the lexical-grammatical category from gerund to adverb is previous to this stage.
Key words:
adverb, conversiune, gramaticalizare, mod, timp
adverbial, conversion, grammaticalization, manner, time
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