ADRIAN CHIRCU
DOI: 10.33993/dr.2023.1.38.55
Author's coordinates: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Facultatea de Litere, Str. Horea, 31
Email: adichircu@hotmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-3337
ADVERBS LOST, ADVERBS FOUND. DERIVATIVES WITH THE SUFFIX -IU
(Abstract)
In our study we wish to discuss the adverbial suffix -iu, which has not been in the researchers’ focus, although the first records of the suffix -iu date back (as far as the seventeenth century), and their presence has been noticed even nowadays, in some South-Western dialects of the Dacian- Romanian linguistic regions (for example in Banat).
Our research began from certain specific discussions about these adverbs as well as from certain previous researches conducted by us, and we wish to add more details about this linguistic trait and to highlight the structural, semantic and functional traits of this word class.
The adverbs in questions are almost absent from the literary language, yet they can be found in the spoken language of the Banat inhabitants and represent proof of old stages of the Romanian language. Such adverbs are not very numerous, yet the scores of adverbs which were recorded during our study are relevant for our research.
In this way, one can notice how this remaining dialectal trait points to how Romanian is similar to the other Romance languages. The latter also exhibit a corresponding type of adverb and a derivative suffix, which originates from Latin.
Cuvinte-cheie: adverb, limba română, limba latină, limbi romanice, diacronie, diatopie, lexic (dialectal).
Keywords: adverb, Romanian language, Latin language, Romance languages, diachrony, diatopy, (dialectal) lexis.
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