Alexandru Nicolae

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandru Nicolae plays a role.

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Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Dragomirescu, Adina and Alexandru Nicolae 2021 IntroductionRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
This volume in the series Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contains a selection of papers presented at the 31st Going Romance conference organized in Bucharest on December 7–9, 2017; a special workshop titled ‘Substratum and adstratum in the… read more
Dragomirescu, Adina and Alexandru Nicolae 2017 Semantic constraints on the reflexive/non-reflexive alternation of Romanian unaccusativesContrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 407–430 | Chapter
The paper discusses semantic effects associated with the alternation between the reflexive and the non-reflexive form of a restricted class of 38 Romanian unaccusative verbs. We start by summarizing the values of the Romanian reflexive markerseand then we present the inventory of… read more
Cornilescu, Alexandra and Alexandru Nicolae 2011 On the syntax of Romanian definite phrases: Changes in the patterns of definiteness checkingThe Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 193–222 | Article
We discuss a type of variation in the pattern of definiteness valuation in Old Romanian (XVIth to XVIIIth century), which has never been noticed before, and examine its significance for the evolution of the DP. In Old Romanian, the suffixed definite article variably occurs either on the first or on… read more