(Pseudo)cleft constructions in old Romanian

The article examines the syntactic and semantic features of cleft sentences in Old Romanian (OR) as compared to Modern Romanian (MR). The clefting strategy in MR can only produce pseudo-cleft constructions (identifying structures with free relative clauses headed by ce, or relative clauses with an a...

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Main Author: Mihaela Gheorghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Diacronia 2017-09-01
Series:Diacronia
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Online Access:http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/6/A91/en/pdf