Observatii asupra Capacitatii de Regenerare a Structurilor Gramaticale. Prezumtivul Prezent in Limba Romana - Observations on the Regenerative Capacity of Grammatical Structures: The Romanian Present Presumptive (Romanian version)

Cristina Corches () and Diana Roman ()
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Cristina Corches: Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Letters within “Babes-Bolyai” University from Iasi
Diana Roman: Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Letters within “Babes-Bolyai” University from Iasi

Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Sectiunea Filosofie si Stiinte umaniste/ Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty - Section: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences, 2011, vol. 1, 309-323

Abstract: The paper aims to illustrate that the lack of a sharp distinction between grammatical categories causes certain verbal structures to oscillate between them. During a three-phase evolution cycle the meaning of these constructions suffers important changes due to the semantic shifts they undergo. In most cases, their original modal value transforms into a temporal one, which, at a second stage, evolves into a new modality. Diachronic evidence from Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian confirms the regenerative tendencies of these forms, among which the periphrasis voi fi `will be` + gerund has a slightly different evolution both in what form and meaning are concerned. Contemporary Romanian grammar books include it in the Present Presumptive paradigm of the verb, but this is just the last phase of the longest series of semantic shifts documented for this type of grammatical structures.

Keywords: modality; tense; evolution; semantic shift; presumptive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 Y80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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