| Title: | Unreal Actions Rendered from Romanian into English Using the Subjunctive Mode |
| Authors: | Dan Mihai Barbulescu, Ioana Mariela Barbulescu |
| Publication: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 15, p. 379 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Place: | Pitești |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | The paper presents a comparative approach of the subjunctive mode, both in English and in Romanian, with a double goal: theoretical and practical. At a theoretical level it illustrates the main similarities and differences between the Romanian “conjunctiv” and the English subjunctive as means of expressing unreal actions, taking into account that the conjunctiv mode is still very active in Romanian, both in colloquial speech and in literary language, while in English, according to several grammarians, the subjunctive mode tends to be assimilated to other verbal modes. At a practical level, the study represents a contrastive approach which highlights the aspects of subjunctive to be underlined when taught to Romanian native speaker students, suggesting the most suitable solutions for translating the specific constructions into the two languages: Romanian and English. |
| Key words: | subjunctive, conjunctiv, mode |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
Citations to this publication: 0
References in this publication: 1
| 1 | Dan Mihai Bărbulescu, Ioana Mariela Bărbulescu | Comparative Aspects of the Voices in English and Romanian | ELI, 12, 344-351 | 2013 | pdf html |
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