Conectores condicionales. Análisis contrastivo español-rumano

This article analyses conditional conjunctions, alternately referred to as connectives, from a contrastive perspective Spanish - Romanian. For this purpose, we have mainly relied on the extensive description of Spanish conditional constructions provided by E. Montolío in Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española and on a corpus-based analysis of Romanian conditionals (R. Alexe – Construcții condiționale în limba română). We have discussed formal features of these connectives regarding their internal structure, clause order configurations and mood-tense patterns of the conditional constructions they introduce, as well as typological features and concurrence between connectives. This comparison has provided some interesting conclusions that highlight not only the common Latin origin of the two languages, but also the unique features that distinguish Romanian in the group of Romance languages.