The Convertor Status of Article of Case and Number in the Romanian Language

Diana-Maria Roman ()
Additional contact information
Diana-Maria Roman: PhD., Faculty of Letters, BabeÅŸ-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Chapter 62 in Rethinking Social Action. Core Values in Practice, 2017, vol. 1, pp 682-694 from Editura Lumen

Abstract: This study is the outcome of research on the grammar of the contemporary Romanian language. It proposes a discussion of the marked nominalization of adjectives in Romanian, the analysis being focused on the hypostases of the convertor (nominalizer). Within this area of research, contemporary scholarly treaties have so far accepted solely nominalizers of the determinative article type (definite and indefinite) and nominalizers of the vocative desinence type, in the singular. However, with regard to the marked conversion of an adjective to the large class of nouns, the phenomenon of enclitic articulation does not always also entail the individualization of the nominalized adjective, as an expression of the category of definite determination. What is outlined, thus, is the situation of nominalized adjectives, in the vocative case, always accompanied, to the right, by pronominal possessive adjectives or by a genitive, in the absence of the head noun. As the expression of conversion, the enclitic article at the end of these nominalized adjectives can no longer coincide with the definite determinative article: despite the homonymy, it is an article of case and number nonetheless. Under these circumstances, the Romanian system actualizes the convertor in the nominalization of adjectives depending on the case of the nominalized lexeme: convertors of the desinence type and of the article of case and number type are actualized in the vocative (V), whereas convertors of the determinative article type (definite and indefinite) are actualized in the nominative, accusative, genitive and dative (NAccGD).

Keywords: conversion; convertor (nominalizer); determinative article; article of case and number; article of gender; number and case; nominalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A3 I2 I3 M0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910129-14-2
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://proceedings.lumenpublishing.com/ojs/index. ... article/view/467/471 (application/pdf)
https://proceedings.lumenpublishing.com/ojs/index. ... ngs/article/view/467 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lum:prchap:01-62

DOI: 10.18662/lumproc.rsacvp2017.62

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Book chapters-LUMEN Proceedings from Editura Lumen
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Antonio Sandu ().