SYSTEME VOCALIQUE ET SEMIOLOGIE FINALE DU NOMBRE EN ROUMAIN
SEMIOLOGY VOICE AND FINAL NUMBERS IN ROMANIAN
Author(s): Romana Timoc-BardySubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: operative time; psychomechanics of language; vowel hierarchy; internal plurality; external plurality; interference of gender and number.
Summary/Abstract: An examination of vowel contrasts in the final expression of substantival number indicates that the vowels carring function are arranged in a hierarchical sequence, revealing the type of plurality (internal or external), gender (major, minor) and its interferences with the number. The identification of this hierarchy allows us to understand better certain diachronic changes (such as -ure >- uri), for which unsatisfactory phonetic explanations have been proposed.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 54/2009
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 205-223
- Page Count: 19
- Language: French