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)