Les traits balkaniques du subjonctif roumain

Abstract

This paper aims to determine the Balkan features of the Roumanian subjunctive mood. The Balkanism is defined here as a linguistic unit which is peculiar to languages of the southeastern Europe, but does not characterize any other Indo-European language. In comparison with the subjunctive mood in French (and in other Western Romance languages), the Roumanian subjunctive mood can be considered a Balkanism. The features which unite it to the subjunctive mood in Albanian and Modern Greek (its frequency, its predominant syntactic nature and its null semantic invariant) are favourable to such classification.