The auxiliary of the Romanian conditional: semantic and functional arguments concerning the reconstruction of a disputed grammaticalization process
This paper aims at demonstrating the explanatory advantages of the old hypothesis concerning the origins of the auxiliary of the Romanian analytic conditional (aș + infinitive) as deriving from the imperfect tense form of the verb (a) vrea ‘(to) want’ < *volere (< VELLE). The grammaticalizatio...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Diacronia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/6/A88/en/pdf |