ROMANIAN AMOUNT RELATIVES
ROMANIAN AMOUNT RELATIVES
Author(s): Aura GherguțSubject(s): Language studies, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Editura Conspress
Keywords: amount relatives; restrictive relative; comparative clauses; interrogative clauses; degree relative clauses
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is the study of the amount relatives in English and Romanian. The concept of the amount relative in linguistics is due to Carlson (1977) who appreciates that these relatives show a syntax and a semantics that clearly differentiate them from the other relatives.Carlson proves that amount relatives are a distinct class from restrictive relative clauses although they resemble comparative clauses. Romanian Amount Relatives are different from English Amount Relatives as at least as they possess a specific pronoun: cât, câtă, câţi, câte which stands for the degree variable.
- Issue Year: VII/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 22-31
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English