“Stelele șI Lalelele”: Saggio Di Micromonografia Storico Descrittiva Di Una Classe Flessiva Della Lingua Romena (II)
“Stelele șI Lalelele”: Micromonography of an Inflectional Class in the Romanian Language (II)
Author(s): Roberto MerloSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: nominal morphology; Romance plural; Romanian language; Turkish loanwords; inflectional morphology;
Summary/Abstract: “Stelele și Lalelele”: Micromonography of an Inflectional Class in the Romanian Language (II). This article is part of a series aimed at reconstructing the history, and discussing the current state of what has been considered, from a Romance perspective, a peculiarity of Romanian language: the existence of an inflectional class of feminine nouns ending in tonic vowel (in short: F√V́ Ø), which form the plural with the addition of the le morpheme. The present paper, the second in the series, discusses some morphological traits of F√V́ Ø on the basis of a lexicographical corpus of contemporary standard Romanian: division in subclasses, internal morphological structure of its members (primitive and derivatives nouns, in particular diminutives, internal formations), and morphological variability.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 66/2021
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 271-298
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Spanish