Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Somesfalean, Stanca 2013

Di Sciullo, Anna Maria & Stanca Somesfalean. 2013. The Definite Determiner in Romanian: A Biolinguistic Perspective. Australian Journal of Linguistics 33(2). 121–139. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2013.814526.

@article{472346,
  author     = {Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Somesfalean, Stanca},
  journal    = {Australian Journal of Linguistics},
  number     = {2},
  pages      = {121–139},
  title      = {The Definite Determiner in Romanian: A Biolinguistic Perspective},
  url        = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07268602.2013.814526},
  volume     = {33},
  year       = {2013},
  abstract   = {We present a new biolinguistic explanation for the evolution of the Nom/Acc and Gen/Dat forms of the Romanian definite determiner, thus providing further evidence to the hypothesis that the Directional Asymmetry Principle provides an explanation for the variation and evolution of the order of head-dependent constituents. As predicted, the choice between a valued and an unvalued variant of a functional feature, which was available in Old Romanian, is gradually reduced through the development of Modern Romanian. We provide an explanation for this evolution in terms of a more general natural complexity-reduction phenomenon.},
  doi        = {10.1080/07268602.2013.814526},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {0726-8602},
  lgcode     = {Romanian [roma1327]},
  macro_area = {Eurasia},
  src        = {haspelmath}
}

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Name in source Glottolog languoid
Romanian