To what extent are the Romanian and the Albanian inflection convergents? Cover Image

Dans quelle mesure la flexion roumaine et albanaise sont-elles convergentes?
To what extent are the Romanian and the Albanian inflection convergents?

Author(s): Tomasz Cychnerski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Romanian language; Albanian language; functional inflection; convergences; balkanisms

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of a short contrastive analysis of functional inflection in the contemporary Romanian and Albanian. Its aim is to determine convergences between these two languages on a highly general level. Nine morphological categories (number, person, gender, case, determination, voice, aspect, mode and tense) with all their main values are described here in each variable lexical class of both the Romanian and the Albanian language. Such a treatment of two corresponding lingusitic subsystems clearly demonstrates that differences overcome similarities, and supposed balkanisms are dubious on this level.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 99-105
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: French