| Title: | The silence of exclamation: exclamative constructions, singular indefinite predicates and silent nouns |
| Author: | Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, X (1) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | The goal of this analysis is to compare constructions containing singular indefinite predicates (SIPs) of the type ‘Ion e un ţăran/Ion is a peasant’ with N of N constructions of the type ‘ţăranul de Ion’/peasant-the of Ion’ and explore the role that the degree operator and silent nouns play. The investigation of exclamative constructions will prove instrumental in determining the range of Romanian silent nouns. Singular indefinites in predicate position (predicated of humans) contain a silent noun, and are defined as evaluative modifiers. The relation between N of N constructions (which express negative or positive evaluation) and SIPs is marked by the presence of a semi-lexical noun TYPE. |
| Key words: | exclamative, silent nouns, bare predicates, SIPs, N of N |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 2
| 5 | Ion Giurgea | Types of Exclamative Clauses in Romanian | RRL, LX (1) | 2015 | pdf html |
| 0 | Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru | Defining “incorporation” with bare singulars in Romanian | BWPL, XVI (1) | 2014 | pdf html |
References in this publication: 1
| 1 | Camelia Constantinescu, Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru | On predicate nominals in Romanian | BWPL, IX (1) | 2007 | pdf html |
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