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(posted to soc.culture.romanian, sci.lang, linguist)
 
I'm currently working on a paper on infinitives in Romance languages.
Romanian presents an interesting case, as it has infinitives as well as
the Balkan "finite infinitive construction". I would like to know more
about it. So if you have bibliographic data, language data, and/or an
opinion about my example sentences, please let me know. I'll send a
summary to the list.
Martin
 
Examples (partly from grammar/text books, from the literature, and
my own):
 
1. Are all of the following sentences correct?
2. If two alternatives are given, is there a semantic/pragmatic/stylistic
difference between them?
3. If only one construction is given, is there an alternative one?
 
(1) Nu ma> pot ret,ine...
(2) Se cuvine a merge eu la milit,ie sa> o iµns,tiint,ez
(3a) Vreau sa> ma> prega>tesc.
(3b) Trebuie sa> ma> prega>tesc.
(3c) Pot sa> ma> prega>tesc.
(4) (i)  Pot,i pleca.
    (ii) Pot,i sa> pleci.
(5) S,tit,i toarce.
(6) Nu avem unde parca.
(7) Iµncercarea sa sa>-s,i recupereze ra>miµnerea iµn urma> s-a soldat
cu un succes.
(8) Iµncercarea sa de a-s,i recupera ra>miµnerea iµn urma>...
(9) El a poruncit ca palatul sa> fie reconstruit ciµt mai curiµnd.
(10) (i) ...porunci la vro doi ostas,i de-l scoase d-acolo.
     (ii)...porunci la vro doi ostas,i sa>-l scoata> d-acolo.
(11) El dores,te sa> vorbeasca> cu reponsabilul restaurantului.
 
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