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Construcţii cauzative perifrastice în limba română veche: moduri şi timpuri
Analytic Causative Constructions in Old Romanian: Moods and Tenses

Author(s): Camelia Uşurelu
Subject(s): Morphology, Syntax, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: causative / factitive; causative operator; causer; causee; types of causation; subjunctive vs infinitive in embedded clauses;

Summary/Abstract: The author describes analytic causative constructions in Old Romanian: she makes an inventory of the mood and tense forms of the verbs which occur in the embedded clause, distinguishes among several types of causation (direct / indirect, strong / neuter / weak) and several degrees at which the causee subject controls the action expressed by the second verb in the structure (subjunctive, infinitive, indicative or supine). The comparison between the large number of causative verbs followed by the subjunctive and the significantly smaller number of causative verbs followed by an infinitive indicates that causative constructions were among the first syntactic structures where the infinitive was replaced by the subjunctive.

  • Issue Year: LXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 64
  • Page Range: 83-91
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian