Dinamica terminologiei sintactice actuale în lumina noilor lucrări de referință
The dynamics of contemporary syntactic terminology in the light of new reference works

Summary/Abstract: This article revisits the dynamics of contemporary Romanian syntactic terminology by reassessing two earlier studies in the field – Pană Dindelegan (1978) and Nicolae (2010) – in the light of major reference works published after 2010. The analysis combines a quantitative comparison of indexes and dictionary entries with qualitative observations on the internal reorganization of terms and concepts. The corpus includes recent grammars and grammar-oriented works, with particular emphasis on Dicționar de termeni gramaticali și concepte lingvistice conexe (DTG 2023), treated as the most comprehensive terminographic synthesis of current grammatical usage. The quantitative section shows that terminological expansion has continued beyond the stage already documented for GALR in comparison with Dicționar de științe ale limbii (DSL 2005), while the qualitative section demonstrates that change does not affect only the inventory of terms, but also their semantic architecture, hierarchy, and theoretical embedding. Four major tendencies are identified: the introduction of new terms, the enrichment of older terms with new meanings, the reordering of meanings within dictionary entries, and the inclusion of theory-driven generalizations, laws, hypotheses, and paradoxes. These developments confirm that syntactic terminology remains a highly dynamic subsystem of linguistic terminology, shaped by the interaction between tradition and innovation, by shifts in theoretical models, and by the increasing role of formal grammar. More specifically, the evidence suggests that over the past fifteen years, theoretical interest has moved towards historical grammar, linguistic variation, and the interfaces between previously less connected domains, such as diachronic linguistics and language acquisition. Contemporary terminological change thus emerges as a reliable indicator of deeper reconfigurations in Romanian grammatical theory.

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