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Dificultăţi în (re)cunoaşterea, înţelegerea şi realizarea acordului. Probleme teoretice şi practice
Difficulties in (Re)Knowing, Understanding and Execution of the Agreement. Theoretical and Practical Problems

Author(s): Cătălin Enică
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință
Keywords: agreement; agreement types; referential agreement; internal agreement; mophematic agreement; grammatical category; categorial value;

Summary/Abstract: This study is devoted to agreement, a construction admirable for its breadth, proportions and balance. Firstly, I tried to define the term, which is considered to be a mode of expression of the subordination link, a morphosyntactic phenomenon and a sign of the enunciation process. Agreement imposes formal variations in number, gender, person and case. 290 But for languages with extended inflection, agreement is a principle of structural organisation. Its purpose is to transmit dual information, syntactic and semantic, and to ensure the unity of linguistic production. Furthermore I established the following typology: referential agreement (in relation to extralinguistic reality) and grammatical agreement (mophosyntactic); internal agreement and external agreement; classes of agreed words and their specific morphemes. A detailed analysis was devoted to the syntactic relations of bilateral dependency (subject-predicate) and unilateral dependency (within the nominal group, GN). In order to give a clearer picture and express the specific nature of agreement, I used a special terminology: accordance - availability/capacity to agree; Accordant - the term that imposes agreement (the Centre of the group); accord - the term that agrees (subordinate); accord - establishing and maintaining contact/ agreement, expressing concordant grammatical categories, imposing specific forms (morphemes). The systematics of agreement phenomena has been arranged on three levels of analysis: general, morphosyntactic and psychological. The rules of agreement, disagreement and oscillations in agreement were illustrated by examples taken from everyday language, the mass media and a valuable scientific bibliography.

  • Issue Year: I/2023
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 95-141
  • Page Count: 47
  • Language: Romanian
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