Statutul de semiauxiliar al verbului “a urma”
The semiauxiliary status of the verbe a urma

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes an analysis of the semantic and syntactic behaviour of the verb a urma used as an auxiliary indicating future tense in periphrastic structures of the type : urmeaza + V subjunctive (urmează să plece, urmează să vină, urmează să răspundă, etc.). This research examines the particularities of this verb of motion (movement in space), which has acquired a temporal meaning (future) in the structures in which it is used as a semi-auxiliary for another verb. We aim at identifying the particularities of the occurrence of this Romanian semi-auxiliary verb by comparing its status to that of verbes of motion in French (aller and venir), which can be used both as motion verbs and as temporal semi-auxiliaries.

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