GRAMMATICAL PARTICULARS OF THE MEDIEVAL ROMANIAN DENOMINATION IN EUROPEAN ROMANCE CONTEXT Abstract In this article we focus on several grammatical aspects that, through the way they are found in historical anthroponymy, can contribute to the particularization of Romance idioms. The emphasis falls on some parameters such as the topic of the elements that make up the medieval denomination phrase, the functional and semantic behaviour of some prepositions, such as a from lat. ad, or de (lat. de), which are involved in rendering parentage or domicile, depending on the linguistic area. We can see, thus, that there is a strong similarity in terms of the tendency towards analyticity, between the Daco-Romanian and the Gallo-Romance dialects, which prefer to prefix these prepositions to secondary names, with which they are sometimes agglutinated (especially in the Gallo-Romance or Italic idioms). However, regarding the preposition de, it should be noted the preservation of the meaning of localization in the Eastern Romanic space, while the Western Romanic documents indicate the use of this connector with a filiation sense. Regarding the article, it accompanies the primary names, but also the secondary ones, in the medieval Romanian, Gallo-Romance, Italic (regional) denomination, but it is rarely registered in the official Hispanic denomination. The position of the article compared to the name it accompanies is a parameter of differentiation within the Romance linguistic space. It precedes the primary anthroponyms (with which, regionally, in the Gallo-Romance dialectal regions, they agglutinate), but appears in the postposition and is attached to the names in the Eastern Romance regions. The topic of names in the denomination phrase seems to be the only element of continuity and contiguity at the level of the entire Romance space: just as in Latin, the individual component always precedes the auxiliary name, a characteristic preserved by the European Romance denomination.
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