Sever Pop – gramatician
Sever Pop – grammarian

Summary/Abstract: Sever Pop is the author of Grammaire roumaine, a good comprehensive work covering all of the Romanian synchronic grammar aspects. This valuable synthesis of Romanian Grammar written in French, which was intended to be a textbook for university, has indubitable positive significance regarding the profile of the Romanian language and of Romania in the world. The volume is organized in books („Livres”) and Chapters, in which all the aspects of Romanian language are systematically described: I. Phonetics & Orthography, II. Morphology and III. Syntax. The introductory surveys cover some aspects of Romanian language history. The great amount of examples is a remarkable aspect of the study, especially since it has many etymological comparisons with words in French. The part concerning Morphology is the most extensive, but what is discussed under Syntax also contains information that in todays' grammar is included in the morphological description. This grammar study is used as a standard manual for Romanian, but can also be used by specialists for various research purposes (i.e. Chapter. Transformations phonétique, p. 56-86). The study of the distinguished grammatician Sever Pop is part of the tradition of Romanian as a foreign language works, that belongs to the great linguists of diaspora. The abundence of examples contained increases its potential as a valuable scientific applied linguistic resource, which can be used nowadays either for the native speakers of French, or for the understanding of the Romanian language through French.

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