Low and multiple definiteness in the history of Romanian: the role of predication

Dikken, Marcel den (2022) Low and multiple definiteness in the history of Romanian: the role of predication. In: A Life in Linguistics. A Festschrift for Alexandra Cornilescu on her 75th Birthday. Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, Bucharest, pp. 161-172. ISBN 9786061613557

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Abstract

This paper presents an integrated analysis of the synchrony and diachrony of DP-internal adjectival and nominal predication in Romanian. A single change in the status of the definiteness marker, from a clitic exponent of a functional head in the DP to a suffix on a lexical head, causes polydefiniteness and P3-placement of the definiteness marker to be confined in Modern Romanian to a range much narrower than in Old Romanian.

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