The Syntagm – syntactical or categorical relationality? Cover Image

Sintagma – relaționalitate sintactică sau categorială?
The Syntagm – syntactical or categorical relationality?

Author(s): Valentin Roman
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Eon – Asociație pentru Promovarea Culturii, Artei, Educației și Cercetării Științifice
Keywords: syntagm; relation; relational meaning; categorical meaning; flective; connector;

Summary/Abstract: Our paper aims at presenting a controversial outlook on the syntactical/ syntagmatic model stated by D.D. Drașoveanu, based on the so-called "relational meaning", starting from a work of Mircea Minică, Semantica relației în limba română (2018), in which the author considers that the terms of a syntagm are relational in themselves (i.e. "categorical relationality") and not as a result of an external relation (i.e. "relational meaning").

  • Issue Year: 4/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 278-288
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian