Expressing contrast in Romanian

The conjunction iar

Gabriela Bîlbîie | Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7

Grégoire Winterstein | Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7

This paper studies the Romanian conjunction iar. After a general introduction to the connective and the existing approaches, we defend an approach of iar as an information structure sensitive item. We describe two constraints on the use of iar that account for a wide range of data. We then use our analysis to compare the system of Romanian conjunctions to that of other languages, especially Russian, which uses a connective that appears similar to Romanian iar.

Published online: 30 November 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.3.01bil

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Abeillé, Anne, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Francois Mouret

2014. In Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language, 15], ► pp. 227 ff.

Bîlbîie, Gabriela & Israel De La Fuente

2021. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017 [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355], ► pp. 50 ff.

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