ON RECENT -BIL DERIVATIVES IN ROMANIAN

Authors

  • MIHAELA TĂNASE-DOGARU University of Bucharest Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62229/aubllrlxxii/23/11

Keywords:

-bil adjectives, eventive adjectives, productivity, stative adjectives

Abstract

The paper investigates a corpus of 72 recent -bil derivatives, used mainly in contemporary Romanian journalese (Croitor 2021). The paper shows that -bil adjectives in Romanian fall into two categories: fully eventive adjectives, characterized by the
presence of by-phrases and/or adverbial event modifiers and fully stative adjectives, simply indicating a property of the referent (Oltra-Massuet 2013). A second result of the analysis is the fact that the boundary between the two identified classes is blurry, in the sense that -bil adjectives actually form a continuum from eventive adjectives to fully stative -bil adjectives (Wasak 2021). Thirdly, the productivity of -bil can be explained by means of usefulness, fashion, and nameability (Plag 2002). 

Author Biography

  • MIHAELA TĂNASE-DOGARU, University of Bucharest

    Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru is a Professor of English Linguistics at the English Department of the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, working on the syntax and semantics of the Germanic and Romance noun phrase from a comparative perspective. Her areas of expertise are: partitivity and classifiers, definiteness, specificity, bare nouns, nominalizations, and datives. She has recently started to work at the morphological-syntactic interface, aiming at relocating suffixation from the lexicon to the pragma-syntactic interface.

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Published

2024-09-30

Issue

Vol. 72 No. 1 (2023): Analele Universității București. Limba și literatură română

Section

Articles