Andra Vasilescu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andra Vasilescu is involved.
Articles
2023 Yes (Rom. Da ). Usages and functions in L2 proficiency examinations: A view from Romanian (Inter)Cultural Dialogues, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 427–452 | Article
The article analyses a Romanian corpus of intercultural dialogues recorded in natural settings during language proficiency examinations and discusses the usages of the frequently occurring word yes (Rom. da). The framework is provided by the Mixed Game Model (Weigand 2009, 2010, 2017, 2018,… read more
2021 Syntactic vs pragmatic passive: Evidence from Romanian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 357–372 | Chapter
This chapter discusses the relationship between the two passive constructions in Romanian (se-passive and be-passive) in a twofold comparison: old Romanian vs present-day Romanian, and standard vs substandard present-day Romanian. Stipulating the distinction ‘syntactic passive’ vs ‘pragmatic… read more
2013 Chapter 5. Pronouns A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase, Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen and Ion Giurgea (eds.), pp. 231–308 | Article