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Stylistic Inversion in Romanian *
Author(s) -
Hill Virginia
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.2006.00136.x
Subject(s) - subject pronoun , clitic , inversion (geology) , pronoun , linguistics , romanian , syntax , computer science , subject (documents) , reflexive pronoun , verb , philosophy , geology , paleontology , structural basin , library science
. This paper investigates the Romanian subject pronoun inversion construction (SPIC), which resembles French subject clitic inversion. It is shown that Romanian inverts subject pronouns, not subject clitics, in speaker oriented direct speech. Tests on the distribution and the interpretation of subjects show that the verb‐pronoun inversion and adjacency follow from syntactic versus morpho‐phonologic constraints. The analysis relates the syntax of the pronoun to the exclusive speaker oriented environment, and treats this construction as a manifestation of the pragmatic input in syntactic computation.