On the use of dar și [but also] in current Romanian
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Faculty of Letters, History and Theology, West University, Bd. Vasile Pârvan 4, 300223 Timișoara, Romania
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Received June 6, 2022
Accepted June 15, 2022
Published September 26, 2022
Abstract
In more recent normative works of the Romanian language, the way in which the sequence dar și [but also] is discussed indicates an acceptance of it among the copulative coordinating constructions, along with those organized in correlative pairs. As in the case of nu numai ..., dar și [not only..., but also], the correct involvement in the discourse of dar și is necessarily controlled by the latent adversative semantic content of the conjunction dar [but] from its structure. In everyday use, however, the transmitter no longer takes into account the fact that dar și “focuses the syntactic limb it precedes, presenting it as less likely, therefore more significant”. In situations as such, dar și appears as a verbal excess, instead of the simple coordinating conjunction și [and]. The tendency could be justified by the speaker’s need to compensate, through the formal note and lexical agglomeration, for the simplicity (sometimes pauperity) of the content that is to be transmitted.
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Export citationText: Chirilă, A. (2022). On the use of dar și [but also] in current Romanian, Diacronia 15 (September 26), A204 (1–6), https://doi.org/10.17684/i15A204en BibTeX: @ARTICLE{chirila2022,
author = {Adina Chirilă},
title = {On the use of dar și [but also] in current Romanian},
journal = {Diacronia},
ISSN = {2393-1140},
year = {2022},
month = {September},
number = {15},
eid = {A204},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.17684/i15A204en},
pages = "(1–6)",
url = {https://www.diacronia.ro/journal/issue/15/A204/en}
}
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