Romanian Studies: Language and Linguistics

The period under review has seen the publication of extensive collections of selected works by two eminent Romanian linguists, making their oeuvre, including some lesser-known publications, accessible to a present-day readership: Valeria Guţu Romalo, Periplu lingvistic. Studii şi reflecţii, Editura Academiei Române, 783 pp., contains 115 articles and chapters in chronological order, published over a period of more than half a century, that reflect the author’s changing research focus but also her overarching desire to gain new insights into all aspects of the structure of the Romanian language, be it in the areas of syntax, morphology, phonology, or pragmatics. Emanuel Vasiliu, Teorie şi analiză în lingvistică, ed. M arina Rădulescu Sala, Editura Academiei Române, 2012, 425 pp., is a posthumous collection of 48 publications, many of them hitherto not easily accessible, which reflect the theoretical nature of V.’s approach to a wide range of linguistic topics; the volume is subdivided into five sections: general linguistics; phonetics, phonology and dialectology; grammar; semantics, pragmatics and stylistics; and a short final section with two contributions on textuality and intertextuality