Cât de "slavă" este morfologia flexivă a limbii române?

Journal article

In a recent article (Elson 2017), it is claimed that the abstract distributional patterns of certain morphological alternations in the root of the Romanian verb and, especially, the distributiòn of alternations reflecting the effects of historical palatalization, are due to Slavonic linguistic influence. This influence allegedly explains, for example, why in Romanian, despite AUDIO > ORo. auz we nonetheless have third person plural AUDIUNT > aud and not **auz. Borrowing of an abstract morphological pattern is highly unusual in historical morphological theory and therefore merits special attention. However, from a properly comparative perspective, which takes into account the morphological development of other Romance varieties which have certainly never been exposed to Slavonic influence, it rapidly becomes clear that putatively Slav influence in the relevant cases is not only undemonstrable but frankly implausible.

Authors: Maiden, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Institutul de Lingvistică al Academiei Române
• Journal: Studii și cercetări lingvistice
• Volume: 2020
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 24–34
• Publication date: 2020-08-18
• Acceptance date: 2020-06-11
• ISSN: 0039-405X
• Language: Romanian
• Keywords: FFR; Bulgarian; borrowing; contact; Romanian; morphology; Slavonic