Abstract

The approach of coordination by junction in a diachronic perspective aimed at establishing the discursive values of the connectors, in the integrated frame of these syntactic relation patterns, and the manner in which the literary norm selected the elements of each subclass throughout time. This study relies on statistical information and that referring to the dialectal areas distribution collected from recent studies in this field, and provides various examples from the first three centuries of Romanian texts, thus highlighting the continuity of this process. The main objective of the research was the integration in the coordination system of the patterns which the researches have mostly neglected so far, even in the Romanian contemporary language. Concerning the adversative relation, the present research also describes the coordination in periodic complex sentences such as concessive and conditional coordination (the latter unreported in contemporary Romanian) as evidence of spoken Latin – Romanian continuity.

Highlights

  • The approach of coordination by junction in a diachronic perspective aimed at establishing the discursive values of the connectors, in the integrated frame of these syntactic relation patterns, and the manner in which the literary norm selected the elements of each subclass throughout time

  • In contemporary Romanian there are seven syntactic patterns, which can be traced to Old Romanian: the first one refers to the main clauses coordination; three patterns employ units having the same syntactic function, within the homogeneous coordination; three patterns occur with the non-homogeneous coordination

  • This configuration allows a complete definition of coordination: a relation between two homogeneous syntactic units, placed at the same level or at different levels, having the same regent clause, in the case of the main clauses

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Summary

Preliminaries

A proposal for describing coordination in Old Romanian seems rather challenging for the present grammar (galr, I, II; gblr), as it has not provided an exhaustive definition of this relation, according to its degree of complexity (the seven syntactic patterns it exhibits). In contemporary Romanian there are seven syntactic patterns, which can be traced to Old Romanian: the first one refers to the main clauses coordination; three patterns employ units having the same syntactic function (satisfy the same valency), within the homogeneous coordination; three patterns occur with the non-homogeneous coordination (different valencies, different syntactic functions) This configuration allows a complete definition of coordination: a relation between two (or more) homogeneous syntactic units (identity of valency and function), placed at the same level (sentence or complex sentence level) or at different levels (sentence-complex sentence level), having the same regent clause (or Ø regent clause), in the case of the main clauses

Copulative coordination
Disjunctive coordination
Adversative coordination
Conclusive coordination
Patterns of coordination in Old Romanian
Non-homogenuous coordination at different levels also has a reduced frequency
Transphrastic connectors
The conclusive connectors occur frequently in the official documents
Coordinated complex text
Conclusion
Studies
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