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Romanian grammar: its peculiarities from Indo-European perspectives

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Author

  • Junichi Toyota

Editor

  • Corina Georgescu

Summary, in English

This article discusses peculiarities of the Romanian grammar in comparison with other Ind-European languages from historical perspective. It shows that Romanian uniquely preserves older characteristics of Indo-European languages, which makes it look 'an odd-one-out' among other Romance languages.

Department/s

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Publication/Series

Language and literature: European landmarks of identity

Document type

Book chapter

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Proto-Indo-European
  • Indo-European
  • Romanian
  • Romance

Status

Published