Ion Giurgea

Giurgea, Ion 2021 Verum focus and Romanian polar questions Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 135–156 | Chapter

Most previous research on the intonation of Romanian polar questions has claimed that the neutral pattern has the main prominence (nuclear accent) on the finite verb, and a final contour characteristic of questions with early focus. I argue that this pattern is not neutral, at least in… read more

Giurgea, Ion and Maria Aurelia Cotfas 2021 Agent control in passives in Romanian Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, Mucha, Anne, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński (eds.), pp. 83–106 | Chapter

We examine control by the external argument of passives in Romanian. As copular passives generally disallow clausal subjects, this issue only concerns reflexive-based passives (so-called ‘se-passives’). Although it is difficult to find unequivocal control instances in Romanian due to the gradual… read more

Giurgea, Ion 2019 Chapter 10. On Romanian preverbal subjects Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 199–218 | Chapter

In the generative literature on Romanian, there is disagreement on the status of preverbal subjects: some researchers consider that they are always fronted by topicalization or focalization, whereas others hold that preverbal subjects that are neither topics nor foci can be found. Based on an… read more

Giurgea, Ion 2016 Romanian tough-constructions and multi-headed constituents Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013, Tortora, Christina, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill (eds.), pp. 119–138 | Article

I propose an account for the absence of agreement on tough-words in Romanian tough- constructions (TCs). I argue that absence of agreement cannot be explained by an A-bar movement derivation, because Romanian TCs involve A-movement, the non-finite complement having passive properties. I also argue… read more

Giurgea, Ion and Eva-Maria Remberger 2014 Polarity fronting in Romanian and Sardinian Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, Côté, Marie-Hélène and Eric Mathieu (eds.), pp. 173–198 | Article

We argue that some word order phenomena in Romanian and Sardinian are the result of a checking operation in the left periphery involving verum focus (i.e., focus on the polarity component of the sentence). In particular, this operation accounts for some word order patterns found in polar questions.… read more

Brăescu, Raluca and Ion Giurgea 2013 Chapter 14. Appositions and juxtaposed nouns A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 775–800 | Article

Cornilescu, Alexandra and Ion Giurgea 2013 Chapter 7. The adjective A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 355–530 | Article

Cornilescu, Alexandra, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Ion Giurgea, Elena Soare and Camelia Stan 2013 Chapter 11. Deverbal nouns A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 663–718 | Article

Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, Ion Giurgea and Donka F. Farkas 2013 Chapter 1. Introduction: Nominal features and nominal projections A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 1–48 | Article

Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, Isabela Nedelcu and Ion Giurgea 2013 Chapter 6. Genitive DPs and pronominal possessors A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 309–354 | Article

Giurgea, Ion 2013 Chapter 16. Nominal inflection A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 827–856 | Article

Giurgea, Ion 2013 Chapter 3. The syntax of determiners and other functional categories A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 97–174 | Article

Giurgea, Ion and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 2013 Nominal and pronominal possessors  in Romanian The Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 105–140 | Article

We describe the syntax and morphology of the genitival construction of Romanian, and we insist on the syntactic analysis of some peculiar properties of these constructions: the alternation between genitives introduced by the agreeing particle al and those without al, the status of this agreeing… read more

Mardale, Alexandru, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea 2013 Chapter 8. Adnominal prepositional phrases A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 531–564 | Article

Miron-Fulea, Mihaela, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea 2013 Chapter 12. Proper names A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 719–746 | Article

Reinheimer Rîpeanu, Sanda, Liliane Tasmowski, Andra Vasilescu, Ion Giurgea and Rodica Zafiu 2013 Chapter 5. Pronouns A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 231–308 | Article

Tănase-Dogaru, Mihaela, Ion Giurgea and Ruxandra Vişan 2013 Chapter 13. Classifier and qualitative binominal constructions A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 747–774 | Article

Giurgea, Ion 2011 The Romanian verbal cluster and the theory of head movement Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010, Herschensohn, Julia (ed.), pp. 271–286 | Article

In Romanian, auxiliaries, mood particles, the negation and a handful of functional items traditionally analyzed as adverbs behave as clitics on the verb, forming together with the verb the so-called ‘verbal cluster’. The analysis of this cluster as a complex head is problematic because auxiliaries,… read more

Giurgea, Ion 2010 Romanian genderless pronouns and parasitic gaps Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009, Colina, Sonia, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.), pp. 231–248 | Article

I argue that the distribution of (overt) object clitics and null objects in Romanian can be explained if we assume that the so-called “neuter pronouns” of Romanian are genderless. I show that Romanian has a null object used as a bound variable with a neuter pronoun antecedent. This item differs… read more

Giurgea, Ion and Elena Soare 2010 Predication and the nature of non-finite relatives in Romance Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Virginia Hill (eds.), pp. 191–214 | Article

This paper investigates non-finite verbal constituents that qualify as modal non-finite relatives in Romanian, French, and Italian. We show that these constructions are reduced relatives based on the relativization of the object. The analysis extends to reduced relatives in general, and argues for… read more

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A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase

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