Romanian Studies

Organisation profile:In general theoretic pluralism is aimed for. This involves that the research group doesn't want to be restricted to a specific theoretical plan, but on the contrary wants to create room for scientific discussion between several theoretical scopes (traditional linguistics, generative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse-analysis and logic of reasoning, formal pragmatics) and linguistic disciplines (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics). However, it is clear that the central points are situated in this field, depending on temporary contingencies bound to the framework and specific interests within the group. The current research is evolving in two ways : (I) in a formal/generative framework, with stress on the formo-syntaxis both from a synchronous as well as from diachronous point of view; (ii) in a morphological and semantico-pragmatical framework, with stress on the formal problems and the problems with respect to the content presented by the anaphoric elements of the sentence (verb and (pro)nomina) on the one hand, both from a synchronous as well as from a diachronous perspective, on the other hand the formal pragmatics. Following research topics are handled : 1.the interpretation of determinators, possibly within the formal framework of the generative grammar and the development of a theory of the acquisition by young Romanian speaking children; 2.The syntactical, distributional and interpretative variation of possessiva in Romanian in comparison wih other languages. 3.The stressed and unstressed system of pronouns; the construction of a historical dimension in the systematic-synchronic description of the Romanian pronominal system within the whole of Romance languages. 4. The problem of the expression of time and mode; the search for the peculiarities in the Romanian verbal system 5. The study of expressive pragmatics in a transcultural perspective (in casu the expression of gratitude). Finally there will be invested in the construction of a corpus of Romanian texts in co-operation with the Institute for Linguistics in Boekarest and in the construction of a corpus child language in co-operation with Carnegie Mellon and Boekarest.

Keywords:ROMANIAN LINGUISTICS, LINGUISTICS, ROMANIAN LANGUAGE

Disciplines:Education curriculum, Language studies, Literary studies