VIEWS ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX CONCEPTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LANGUAGE
VIEWS ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX CONCEPTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: A definition of grammar without making the main reference to its most important constituents, Morphology and Syntax, cannot be conceived correctly and completely, all the more so since grammar has been divided into Morphology and Syntax since Antiquity. Over time, Morphology has become the study of the flexionary forms of words, doubled by the study of their grammatical meaning; thus, Morphology is a science of word both in terms of expression and in terms of content. The meaning given to the word Syntax and to its research purpose has varied throughout the history of grammar. Nevertheless, the organisation of communication, i.e. the combinations of words, remains at the centre of syntactic research. We will present and argue the reasons why we do not agree to remove the words Morphology and Syntax from the name and content of the new academic treatises. From our point of view, the interpenetration between Morphology and Syntax, the fact that many morphological phenomena can only be explained by reference to syntax and vice versa, does not take away their individuality and is not a sufficient argument for them to be viewed as something else than the two major pillars of grammar, in the vision that we consider to be viable, i.e. the one in which grammar is separate from semantics, pragmatics etc., all these subjects being naturally interdependent.

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