(Pseudo)cleft constructions in old Romanian

the verbal constructions in azari (harzani dialect)

most of the verbal constructions of harzani dialect have got inflectional affixes. the majority of the constructions are made up vy adding a specific verbal affix to the verbal stem (infinitive without infinitive marker). only a few number of them is formed by adding a verbal affix to the past participle of the verb. there are specific rules for the formation of different verbal types. there is...

Vitamin D Status: A Different Story in the Very Young versus the Very Old Romanian Patients

BACKGROUND In Romania (latitude 48°15'N to 43°40'N), vitamin D supplementation is common practice mostly in infants 0-1 year old. No published information is available regarding epidemiological data on vitamin D status in the Romanian population for a wide age range and geographical territory. In this context, we aimed to evaluate the seasonal and age variation of vitamin D status in a large Ro...

Pseudocleft Connectedness: Implications for the Lf Interface Level

Pseudocleft connectivity: Implications for the LF interface level

In the early days of transformational grammar, it was recognized that the syntactic properties of pseudoclefts posed a challenge to the emerging theory. The problem is simple to state, at least in a preliminary form: Pseudoclefts exhibit the same patterns with respect to various syntactic constraints as the simple sentences that paraphrase them. We illustrate with the pairs in (1)–(3), which ex...

Romanian Evidentials

This paper contains an investigation of some aspects of Romanian modality constructed with auxiliaries. These forms can be combined either with the infinitive, or with overt (imperfective /perfective) aspectual morphology. In the latter case, they might give rise to interpretations which have been classified in Romanian grammars as presumptive (broadly described as referring to probability, unc...