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Secţiunea Tendinţe actuale în teoria limbajului: Melania Duma – premiul I; Cristian Paşcalău –
premiul II; Diana Turtureanu – premiul III.
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STRUCTURING AND RESTRUCTURING ADVERBIALS. AN ENGLISH-ROMANIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Melania Duma
Coordonator ştiinţific: prof. univ. dr. Ştefan Oltean
Secţiunea: Tendinţe actuale în teoria limbajului (premiul I)
0. Premises
Our paper starts from the premise that exception, addition and opposition adverbials constitute a
homogeneous class of syntactic phenomena due to the underlying principles of grammatical interpretation 1 .
Our domain of study will deal only with exception adverbials within this paper.
Exception adverbials are generally considered grammatical structures that are interpretable by virtue of one
syntactic function. The formal elements which set the class of exception adverbials apart are specialized
prepositions (cu excepţia, decât, în afară de, except (for), than, but) and specialized complementizers (în
afară să/că, except that decât/but/than+relative pronouns/adverbs) which we will label from now on as
functional frame. Despite this unique, automatic 2 approach, we will try to offer examples which challenge
such an interpretation.
In order to achieve this, we will use elements which belong both to traditional (the notion syntactic
function) as well as generative grammar (the GB – Government and Binding and MP – The Minimalist
Program).
1. Theoretical Claims
In the case of adverbials, we accept from the start the fact that a grammatical interpretation needs to
take into account the fact that the meaning 3 plays an important part in deciding the value of adverbials. The
difference between adverbials expressing time, manner or location, and those expressing exception, addition
or opposition is the fact that the latter category is the result of syntactic reorganization, whereas the first is not.
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G A L R (2005:587), Irimia (2004:464), Guţu-Romalo (1973:198-199).
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We say that it is automatic due to the fact that, according to the classic approach, one merely has to identify a specialized
conjunction or complementizer to interpret the structure as an exception adverbial.
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Ernst (2002/2006:11): An adjunct depends on its lexical semantics, the nature of the compositional/ rule system applying to it and
morphological weight.