Expressing the potential and the unreal in old, modern and contemporary Romanian (object and attributive subordinate clauses) Cover Image

EXPRIMAREA POTENTIALULUI SI A IREALULUI ÎN LIMBA ROMÂNĂ VECHE, MODERNĂ SI CONTEMPORANĂ (SUBORDONATELE COMPLETIVE SI ATRIBUTIVE)
Expressing the potential and the unreal in old, modern and contemporary Romanian (object and attributive subordinate clauses)

Author(s): Mihaela Popescu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: subjunctive; potential; unreal

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to give a brief outline of some explicit structures which express the potential and the unreal in Romanian. On one hand, one can notice the fact that, since old Romanian, the subjunctive mood has retained its own modal values in explicit structures, while, on the other hand, one can notice the polymorphism at the (syntactic) level that the Romanian speaker has at his disposal in order to express the realis - irrealis dichotomy.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 103-111
  • Page Count: 1
  • Language: Romanian