CONSTRUCȚII CONCESIVE „METISATE”

HYBRID CONCESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

Abstract

This article argues for an information structure approach to the analysis of prototypical concessive constructions with the connector deși `although`, in Romanian. The analysis of the concessive constructions proposed here is semantically based on the notion of contrast. On one hand, it is argued that this perspective allows one to make subdivisions within the category of prototypical concessive constructions, depending on the co-occurrence of different types of contrast. One other hand, it is argued that this approach offers an explanatory representation for the cases where the contrast `hybridisation` may occur, revealing different concessive `flavours`.