Title: Observations upon the Clitics of the Dative Case in Romanian
Abstract: In the list of morphological litigations, a special position is occupied by the semanticosyntactic and pragmatic status of certain clitics of the dative, more precisely of the pronominal forms accepted in the literature of the field as representations of the ethical dative. According to DSL1, ethical dative is defined as a special utilization of the clitical forms of dative of the personal pronoun, characterized by the loss of any anaphorical function and charged with a special stylistic and pragmatic function. These segments are attached to the verb, for evidencing the emotional participation of the locutor to the action or for rousing the interest of the interlocutor in it. For exemplifying the occurrence of the clitical forms of ethical dative in Romanian statements, the same structure provides two different contexts: Pe unde-mi stai? and. ra pede mi ti le-a i nfulecat (I. Creanga).The problem of clitics in dative, possibly configurated as emotional elements capable of enhancing the discourse of either locutor or interlocutor, even if their occurrence is not generated by morphological dependencies on other lexical elements present in the statement, is also resumed in more recent grammar volumes, considering such realities as asyntactic and nonanaphoric2. In parallels with this, the literature of the field considers that some clitics of the prototypical personal pronouns may represent dative possession, but only in the situations in which the center-nominal structure is lexicalized, as in the following examples: In drumu-ti, vei i ntâ lnifel § ifel de oameni. Fata-i parea trista. Mama ne cre§ te copiii.In our attempt to demonstrate the semanticosyntactic and pragmatic qualities of the emotional dative clitics, statement: V-au murit la uda torii will be considered, where clitics v-, conjuncted with a proximal verb, might be viewed as an indirect object. However, the meaning imposed by the whole statement to v-is of indexcalizator3 of the possessor, a reality obtained by reconfiguration of the context, namely by introduction in the sequence of the lexical unit expressing the logically established possession (V-au murit la uda torii vos tri) and which, assuming all tautological risks, imparts to the clitics the part of attributive adjunct element. Elimination of the nominal structure la uda torii favourizes the statement V-au murit, whose flexionary motivation to clitics v-is possible only in relation with the nominal anterior form la uda torii. If the support-statement, V-au murit la uda torii, permits reading of clitics v-as a possessive attribute, the same syntactico-semantic situation should be also accepted for pronoun v-in the transformed statement: V-au murit.Mention should be nevertheless made of the fact that, in structures of the V-au murit type (considered a-grammatical, an aspect still to be elucidated), namely fractured, the position of attribute is identified exclusively by resorting to the profound structures, where the presence of a nominal mark is-in our opinion-a must.As a conclusion to such anticipative general elements, one may consider that, in a similar manner, in all cases in which dative clitics have no semantico-referential and morphological motivation, being however related to a larger linguistic sau extralinguistic context, within which they depend on the nominal structures, and for which they act as indexicalizators, involved here are surface structures, within which the units are defined syntactically only vs the profound ones4.In the semantico-referential structure of the Statement and also in the transformation and relation network through which these clitics are developed, the author considers that, apart from the role of doubling the locutor or/ and interlocutor (or, more rarely, the extralocutor), which depends exclusively on the former's persuasive intention, the mentioned forms of dative also indexicalize, in the pre-mental structure of the locutor, the possessor. …
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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