The sociolinguistic typology of mesoclitic imperatives in Romanian

POTENTIAL MA THESIS TOPIC

Sociolinguistic typology

Main theoretical underpinning

Trudgill's (2011) typology

Complexity

Other sociolinguistic typologies

Mesoclisis

Portuguese

Spanish

Romanian

Albanian

Methodology

Potential supervisors

Social network

Dense social network=complexity

Loose social network=simplification

Defined in terms of L2 learnability

Is this a desirable definition?

Acceptability Judgement Test

The specific discursive contexts of imperatives impedes (semi-)spontaneous elicitation

Dr Anna Tristam (Queen's University Belfast)