CLAUSAL AND NON-CLAUSAL GERUNDS IN CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN. DESCRIPTION AND INTERPRETATION
CLAUSAL AND NON-CLAUSAL GERUNDS IN CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN. DESCRIPTION AND INTERPRETATION

Summary/Abstract: As a non-finite verbal form, the Romanian Gerund may be used to reduce not only subordinate clauses but also main clauses. Two are the situations in which there is no clausal correspondent. Such is the case of the Adverbial Modifier of Manner and the Adverbial Modifier of Instrument. Concentrating the expression and thus creating dynamism, especially in narratives but also in poetry, the Gerund reduces both non-adverbial clauses (Subject, Direct Object, Prepositional Object, Secondary Object, Attribute) and adverbial ones (circumstances like time, manner, cause, purpose, condition, concession, result, exception, relation, addition and opposition are to be encountered). The article focuses on describing and interpreting all these contexts in which the Romanian Gerund occurs as an alternative means to reduce various sentences.

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