Grupul nominal în scrierile lui Dosoftei: posesorul
The Nominal Group in Dosoftei’s Writings: The Possessor

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the nominal group in Dosoftei’s writings, with a focus on the possessor, adopting a diachronic approach. The paper is divided into two parts: the first outlines the theoretical framework, and the second presents the analysis of the corpus under investigation. In the theoretical section, we first discuss the concepts of nominal group and possessor. After defining the nominal group and describing its constituents, we examine the means of expressing possession in Romanian—primarily the genitive, but also dative clitics, possessive adjectives, relative clauses, and prepositional phrases equivalent to the genitive. We then consider the peculiarities of the possessor as a syntactic function introduced in the Basic Grammar of the Romanian Language, focusing on the parts of speech by which it can be expressed. Regarding the corpus, we first address the substitution class of the possessor. We then describe complex nominal groups in which possessors co-occur with other syntactic positions, namely determiners, modifiers, and quantifiers. We discuss the internal structure of each nominal group and provide examples to support our analysis. Overall, the examination of the corpus reflects the complex possibilities for structuring the nominal group and illustrates the diversity of syntactic constructions in Old Romanian with respect to the possessor.

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