On the history of Romanian genitives: the prenominal genitive

In this paper we focus on the behaviour of prenominal genitives in Old Romanian in contrast with Modern Romanian. In the old language, the prenominal genitive is more widely used and occurs in three distinct configurations: (i) it is a determiner genitive in DP-initial position and checks the defini...

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Main Authors: Alexandra Cornilescu, Alexandru Nicolae
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2011-11-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL-_2011-_nr-2_-Cornilescu-Nicolae.pdf