DPs in adjectival small clauses in Romanian: a diachronic perspective

This paper focuses on some diachronic data from Romanian concerning adjectival predicates under intensional verbs (consider-Adj. types). The interest in these constructions resides not only in their contribution to the investigation of one of the most versatile structures in human language, namely small clauses, but also in their relevance for understanding the Romanian DPs and DOM strategies, due to the salient diachronic stability of important structural properties of these configurations. It is proposed that a complex predicate analysis employing a Multiple Agreement Mechanism is able to derive the strong/specific readings of the shared arguments under discussion; the variation in the DOM marking of pronouns is correlated to a plausibly more recent development of the definiteness scale for differential marking in Romanian, complementary to the animacy scale.