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DEFINITE DETERMINATIVE ARTICLE OR OTHER MORPHEMIC STATUS?!
DEFINITE DETERMINATIVE ARTICLE OR OTHER MORPHEMIC STATUS?!

Author(s): Diana-Maria Roman
Subject(s): Language studies, Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Lexis
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: morphemic status; invariable adjectives; definite determinative article; number and case article; number article;

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents a study of the Contemporary Romanian Grammar and comes up with a discussion regarding the contexts where some invariable adjectives, ditamai, ditai, coşcogea, coşcogeamite, which are compulsory to be placed before a noun, ask for the common nouns after these adjectives to be enclitically articulated. The presence of the indefinite article beside these adjectives placed before the common nouns enclitically articulated complicates even more the situation, raising the problem around the morphemic status of the flective segments of enclitic article type from the final of the flective of the common nouns: it is about a definite articulation both in the content and in expression, taking into account the fact that the flective segments are homonym, or, it is actually only about a formal articulation.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 642-652
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian