THE SEMIOTIC AND METASEMIOTIC CHANGE WITHIN THE CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY OF ASPECT

Dumitru MELENCIUC, Silviana CUPCIC Moldova State University

Abstract

The English language possesses a clear-cut grammatical aspectual system expressed by the opposition of finite and non-finite continuous/non-continuous forms, supported by lexical, lexical grammatical, and prosodic means, as part of the corresponding conceptual category. In Romanian the grammatical continuous aspect is subservient, the lexical, lexicalgrammatical and prosodic aspectual categorial means being prominent. The system of the finite continuous expressive forms are attested and regularly used in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, while in Romanian they are gradually getting out of usage. In the contrasted languages one could observe the tendency of stylistic transposition. Keywords: continuous forms, stylistic transposition, conceptual category, categorial forms, lexical-grammatical.