The Grammatical Structure of Romanian Language in terms of

the linguist D. Irimia’s Contribution

Structura gramatical a limbii române prin perspectiva contribu iei

lingvistului Dumitru Irimia

ARHIP Odette1, ARHIP Cristian.2

e-mail: arodette@live.com

Abstract. Our contribution comments upon the linguist D. Irimia’s

original, synthetic modality to present aspects of Romanian morphology and
syntax. He was a disciple of Eugen Coserio and he continued Iorgu Iordan’s
tradition devoting great attention to the oral aspect of our language. We mainly
underline the semantic and stylistic, even prosodic, commentaries done by
professor D. Irimia in his major studies: „Eminescu’s Poetic Language” (1979),
„The Stylistic Structure of Contemporary Romanian Language” (1986), and
„The Grammar of the Romanian Language” (2008). The contribution highlights
his modality of presenting the counteraction of grammatical categories, the
semantic aspects of relative and absolute tenses, moods and other grammar
categories with stylistic functions.
Key words: linguistics, stylistics, relation, oposition, function.

Rezumat. Contribu ia noastr comenteaz modalitatea original i

sintetic a lingvistului ie ean D. Irimia de a prezenta aspecte ale morfologiei i
sintaxei limbii române. Profesorul Irimia a fost un discipol al lui Eugen Co erio
i a continuat tradi ia instaurat de Iorgu Iordan, manifestand mare aten ie pentru
aspectul oral al limbii noastre. Noi eviden iem comentariile semantice, stilistice,
chiar prozodice, ale profesorului D. Irimia, comentarii existente in principalele
sale opere: „Limbajul poetic eminescian” (1979), „Structura stilistica a limbii
române contemporane” (1986) i „Gramatica limbii române” (2008). Contributia
reliefeaz modalitatea sa de prezentare a interac iunii dintre diversele categorii
gramaticale, a aspectelor semantice ale timpurilor relative i absolute, ale
modurilor gramaticale, precum i ale altor categorii gramaticale care au i functii
stilistice.
Cuvinte cheie: lingvistic , stilistic , rela ie, opozi ie, func ie.

INTRODUCTION
Professor D. Irimia (1939-2009) was a well-known and respected academic
and scientific personality who spent his entire career as a professor at “Al. I.
Cuza” University, Iasi. He made a major contribution to the development of
Romanian stylistics due to his PhD thesis, “Eminescu’s Poetic Language” (1979),
and “The Stylistic Structure of Contemporary Romanian Language” (1986), both
of them being considered valuable benchmarks in any reference list. He was a
disciple of Eugenio Coseriu and he continued Iorgu Iordan’s tradition devoting

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Ecological University, Bucharest, Romania
2
“George Enescu” University of Arts, Iasi, Romania
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great attention and interest to the oral aspect of our language and to the richness
of its oral expression which he illustrated and commented upon. His remarkable
attention for Eminescu’s contribution to modern Romanian literary language
could be noticed in many other studies, analyses and, also, due to the annual
Mihai Eminescu Symposium for students. He coordinated an electronic studying
process of Eminescu’s texts and of the program for lyric equivalences –
“Dictionary of Eminescu’s Poetic Language; Signs and Meanings” (two volumes
in 2002 and in 2005). The stylistic diversity of the Romanian language can be
discovered in another Irimia’s major work: “The Grammar of the Romanian
Language” – last edition in 2008. This handbook has brought “many new
elements to the old academic rules” and its new-built perspective has influenced
the Grammar of the Romanian Academy, published in 2008.

MATERIAL AND METHOD

Our present contribution is based on several modern points of view of this
distinguished professor regarding grammar issues, points of view which have been
validated by other authors and have appeared as such in the Academic Grammar.
Due to the fact that almost all the examples are very subtle and have complete
linguistic relevance in Romanian, I have decided to leave them un-translated and to
explain the phenomena in as much details as possible.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

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