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This article rethinks the morphological and syntactic status of Romanian constructions such as contra, împotriva, în faţa, în jurul, de-a lungul, etc., which havebeen (almost) unanimously interpreted in Romanian grammar as prepositions (prepositional phrases), assigning the genitive case. Ourendeavor, coming from the perspective of a neotraditional, relationistgrammar, ismeant to highlight a series of mostly grammatical features, whichconfutes/excludes their prepositional status and placesthem in the class of atypical nouns. The theoretical ground for thisspeculationisrepresented by theirnoun-typical grammatical categories, specifically realized: they have grammatical gender, fixed singular forms, prepositionalaccusativeform (withfree, agglutinated, or elliptical prepositions), and are articulate de xclusivelyenclitically. Theirrealizationwith an obligatory determiner, whichis exclusively possessive or genitive, isconsidered an individualizing syntactical feature. The situation appears analogous with the similar distributional situation of the possessivepronounal (a), including the terminology, and therefore they are called semi-independentnouns. As such, they are terms, carryingtheirown syntactic functions, mostlythose of a prepositionalaccusative (attribute, subject predicative, object predicative, complements, adverbials), and their obligatory determiner (possessive or genitive) is of the type attribute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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