Rivero, M.,Ionescu, Rodica.2009-03-202009-03-2019901990Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 30-03, page: 0474.9780315606128http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5623http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-14454The present research attempts to provide a synchronic syntactic analysis of two Modern Romanian non-finites: the De-Supine and the 'Nominalized' Supine. They are studied in the much debated framework of the similarities and differences between the noun phrase and the sentence. Their external and internal debatable status has been controversial both in early and recent generative grammar. These categories were expected to be so much different and yet very much alike. Their status as two cyclic nodes and two most fundamental categories in every language explains why there has always been an attempt to claim an identical structure for both, to bring them together under a common structure, or to separate them. The present thesis tries to range among recent attempts to provide a common structure for both noun phrase and sentence in the Non-Finite domain. However, by trying to provide the non-finites and the 'nominalized' non-finites with a similar sentential structure, it becomes quite clear and non-derived nouns and 'nominalizations' are quite different structures. The absence of a verbal stem is essential in claiming two complete different structures for them. The attempt of the present study to provide the Romanian Supines with a sentential analysis and structure has been done in the background of three crucial analyses: the analysis of the Balkan IP structures (Joseph, 1983, Rivero, 1988), the DP analysis (Abney, 1987) and the recent analysis of PRO in the Government and Binding framework. Particular emphasis is given to the special nature of PRO as implicit agent identified through Singular in the 'Nominalized' Supine.114 p.Language, Linguistics.Thesis