Alexandra Cornilescu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Cornilescu plays a role.
2021 Is there a dative alternation in Romanian? Remarks on the cross-categorial variation of datives in ditransitive constructions Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 91–110 | Chapter
Against recent claims that Romance languages lack a genuine dative alternation since they lack a genuine Prepositional Dative Construction (e.g., Pineda 2012), we bring evidence that, in Romanian, even in Recipient ditransitive constructions, datives manifest either DP or PP properties. In order… read more
2015 On the syntax of datives in unaccusative configurations Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 119–158 | Article
The paper examines a class of Dative-Nominative psych constructions based on light unaccusative verbs. Unaccusative Datives contrast with Datives in ditransitive structures. One sharp difference is the obligatory presence of the Dative clitic, while the clitic is optional in ditransitive structures. read more
2013 Chapter 7. The adjective A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 355–530 | Article
2013 Chapter 11. Deverbal nouns A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 663–718 | Article
2011 On the syntax of Romanian definite phrases: Changes in the patterns of definiteness checking The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 193–222 | Article
We discuss a type of variation in the pattern of definiteness valuation in Old Romanian (XVIth to XVIIIth century), which has never been noticed before, and examine its significance for the evolution of the DP. In Old Romanian, the suffixed definite article variably occurs either on the first or on… read more
2009 On the linearization of adjectives in Romanian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 33–52 | Article
The paper discusses the linearization of DP-internal Romanian adjectives, along
the lines of Stavrou (2001), against the background of phase theory (Chomsky
2005). A system of adjective classification is proposed, taking into account
whether they combine with NPs or DPs, whether they are kind- or… read more
2008 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages, Kallulli, Dalina and Liliane Tasmowski (eds.), pp. 289–319 | Article
Romanian, as well as certain varieties of Spanish (but not Iberian Spanish, French or Italian) allow the clitic doubling of direct objects (indirect objects will be left out here),1 a phenomenon that is subject to clear crosslinguistic differences: in Spanish, but not in Romanian, clitic doubling… read more
2006 Modes of Semantic Combinations: NP / DP. Adjectives and the Structure of the Romanian DP Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004, Doetjes, Jenny and Paz González (eds.), pp. 43–69 | Article
2002 Rhematic focus at the left periphery: The case of Romanian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December, Beyssade, Claire, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi (eds.), pp. 77–91 | Article
1999 Aspect and Nominalizations: the Case of Romanian Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages, Kenesei, István (ed.), pp. 211–238 | Article
1995 Rumanian Genitive Constructions Advances in Roumanian Linguistics, Cinque, Guglielmo and Giuliana Giusti (eds.), pp. 1–54 | Article