Open AccessVS SYNTACTIC CONFIGURATIONS IN ROMANCE ADVERBIAL CLAUSES
Author(s) -
Alice Magdalena Bodoc
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
people : international journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2454-5899
DOI - 10.20319/pijss.2022.81.102120
Subject(s) - adverbial , romanian , linguistics , pragmatics , romance languages , romance , word order , computer science , point (geometry) , syntax , feature (linguistics) , information structure , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , literature , art , philosophy , geometry
Based on an original corpus, and also on the important contributions of Haegeman 2012, Pană Dindelegan & Maiden 2013, and Lahousse 2010, I intend to demonstrate in this article that there are specific factors that influence the VS syntactic configurations of Romance languages (Romanian, Italian, and French), and these factors are directly connected to the internal information structure. From a methodological point of view, this is an empirical study, combining comparative and corpus analyses, qualitative and quantitative observations, and using the instruments of Morphosyntax and Pragmatics. In the end, the results of the analysis highlight the idea that both information structure and the “pro-drop” feature have a big impact on the word order of the constituents, generating a significant discrepancy between Romanian and Italian, on the one hand, and French, on the other hand.