De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian

Romanian inherited the Romance de-genitive from Latin. In the 16th century, the de-genitive had an archaic character and was used in the formal register. The absence of the de-genitive from original documents goes to show that it was not used in the spoken language any longer. In the first grammar t...

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Main Author: Camelia Stan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2014-05-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/BWPL_2014_nr.1_-STAN.pdf
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spelling doaj-5c5e14d855b4406082d98e83a8529eb02020-11-24T22:23:10ZengEditura Universitatii din BucurestiBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 2069-92392069-92392014-05-01XVI13542De-phrases and specificity in old RomanianCamelia StanRomanian inherited the Romance de-genitive from Latin. In the 16th century, the de-genitive had an archaic character and was used in the formal register. The absence of the de-genitive from original documents goes to show that it was not used in the spoken language any longer. In the first grammar textbooks of Romanian, from the 18th century, the de-genitive was a bookish form.http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/BWPL_2014_nr.1_-STAN.pdfde-genitivefunctional prepositiondefinitenessOld Romanian
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De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
de-genitive
functional preposition
definiteness
Old Romanian
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title De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian
title_short De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian
title_full De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian
title_fullStr De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian
title_full_unstemmed De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian
title_sort de-phrases and specificity in old romanian
publisher Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
series Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
issn 2069-9239
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publishDate 2014-05-01
description Romanian inherited the Romance de-genitive from Latin. In the 16th century, the de-genitive had an archaic character and was used in the formal register. The absence of the de-genitive from original documents goes to show that it was not used in the spoken language any longer. In the first grammar textbooks of Romanian, from the 18th century, the de-genitive was a bookish form.
topic de-genitive
functional preposition
definiteness
Old Romanian
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