LA CONTRIBUTION DES TRADUCTIONS DE PIONNIÉRAT DE CONSTANTIN NEGRUZZI À LA CONSTITUTION DE LA LANGUE ROUMAINE LITTÉRAIRE MODERNE
THE CONTRIBUTION OF CONSTANTIN NEGRUZZI’S PIONEERING TRANSLATIONS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE MODERN LITERARY ROMANIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the first half of 19th century, in addition to the development of the education in Romanian and the foundation of theatres and societies, there was an effective “translation policy” into Romanian, all these actions aiming at the national cultural development. The initiators of the movement had the intuition of the function of these translations for the enrichment and the improvement of Romanian language. By reading attentively the translations from French literature due to Constantin Negruzzi and by using reference dictionaries, we identified and analysed the neologisms attested in these texts, whose majority was preserved in the current Romanian lexicon. The raised aspects constitute an undeniable proof of the crucial role played by the translations at the time of the foundation of the literary Romanian language on modern bases.

• Details
• Contents