Parataxis in contemporary Romanian language – syntactic relation between coordination and subordination? Cover Image

Parataxa în limba română contemporană – raport sintactic între coordonare și subordonare?
Parataxis in contemporary Romanian language – syntactic relation between coordination and subordination?

Author(s): Cipriana-Elena Çavaș
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: Eon – Asociație pentru Promovarea Culturii, Artei, Educației și Cercetării Științifice
Keywords: parataxis; coordination; subordination; syntactic relations; statement;

Summary/Abstract: Juxtaposition or parataxis represents a phenomenon characterized by the lack of the interpropositional connective (its zero expression), an insignificant accident in the positive realization of relations, because the relational interpretation is made by analogy with certain positive models as the realization of connectives and taking into account grammatical logic. Through this article, we propose to present several arguments that can be the basis for considering juxtaposition as a distinct syntactic-semantic relation in contemporary Romanian, because to coordinate implies ordering, arranging the elements of a statement according to certain relations, and for reasons of grammatical precision it is considered that the coordination relation should be distinguished from the juxtaposition relation, because to enumerate is different from to coordinate.

  • Issue Year: 7/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 24-29
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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