Le Superlatif des Adjectifs Tough Suivis d'un Supin en Roumain Contemporain: Problèmes D'Accord et de Position Adnominale

In contemporary Romanian, adjectives of the tough class combined with a verbal supine are said to be invariable . This article uses corpus data to show that while this is on the whole true for adjectives in the plain form, it is not true for superlatives, which agree with the noun they refer to in more than 40 per cent of the cases . It is also shown that superlative tough adjectives occur much more often in prenominal position than do tough adjectives in the plain form . They are, however, more prone to appear after the head noun than superlatives in general . Superlatives of the type in question can also split around the noun they modify, as can other types of superlative constructions with a complement . The possibility for a tough adjective in the plain form to appear before the noun when followed by a supine complement is, however, a unique feature for this type of AP.