Open AccessA syntactic account of Romanian correlative coordination from a Romance perspective
Author(s) -
Gabriela Bîlbîie
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2008.2
Subject(s) - romanian , correlative , perspective (graphical) , romance , romance languages , linguistics , type (biology) , computer science , rule based machine translation , mathematics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , literature , art , geology , paleontology
This paper examines the syntactic behaviour of two omnisyndetic coordinations (also calledcorrelative coordinations), i.e. the disjunctive and the conjunctive types in Romanian, byexplaining its data in a Romance perspective. Major issue has been whether these structures havesymmetric or asymmetric structures. If all these Romance languages share a symmetric analysis forthe disjunctive type Conj ... Conj, it is not the case for the conjunctive type. Our aim is to show thatthe postulation of a conjunctional status for the Romanian structure şi ... şi ('both ... and'), which isthe most widespread view in Romanian grammars, is inadequate for the Romanian data.