Perfect Simple in Wallachia and Transylvania: A Typological Approach

• Authors: Mădălina Chitez
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The focus of the article is the dialectal-typological analysis of Perfect Simple/PS (Ro. ‘perfectul simplu’) in Romanian dialects, i.e. Bobiceşti/Olt/Wallachia and Almaş/Arad/Transylvania. Paralleled by the main literature-based characteristics of the tense, the data do not only emphasize the surprisingly preponderant distribution of PS in Transylvania but they also reveal the key status of the Perfect Simple as part of the Romanian dialect use as well as its typologically relevant double status (Standard Romanian versus dialect use). The comparison between the ‘general purpose’ Latin-to- Romance PS evolution and the ‘Balkansprachbund’ Greek-Aorist characteristics ends with commentaries on the double perspective of Romanian: Wallachian (generally reflected in Standard Romanian) manifests Balkan-oriented phenomena and Transylvanian preserves Latin/Romance-oriented features.

Keywords

EN

dialectology; typology; dialect syntax; dialectal typology; Romanian dialects; Perfect Simple; perfectul simplu (Ro.); Balkansprachbund; Standard Average European (SAE)

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Linguaculture
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2010
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 57-82

Dates

published

2010-06-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Mădălina Chitez

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10318-012-0004-8