Resumen de Temporal and spatial sentence connectives: evidence from Old Romanian
Taking as a starting point the Romanian grammars GALR (2005/2008) and GBLR (2010), this paper aims to underline the importance of sentence connectives for the understanding of grammatical relations and for the construction of complex sentences. The perspective will be mainly diachronic, attempting to clarify aspects regarding the use and the historical development of Old Romanian temporal and spatial connectives (TCs and SCs) in the 16th and the 17th centuries, their frequency, and variability. The present work is also devoted to the historical evolution of sentence connectives when and where, based on the concepts formulated in the grammaticalization theory, “a useful framework for an understanding of the development of syntactic structures” (Hoffmann 2005, 2).
