Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of abbreviations XV
5. List of tables XIX
6. List of figures XXI
7. Chapter 1 Romanian between Romance and South-East European languages 1
8. Chapter 2 The object of the study 39
9. Part 1: The mihi est construction
10. Chapter 3 The mihi est construction as a complex-predicate construction 51
11. Chapter 4 Corpus and methodology 74
12. Chapter 5 Nouns entering the mihi est construction 85
13. Part 2: The subject and its properties
14. Chapter 6 The subject: Toward a universal definition 115
15. Chapter 7 Subject properties in Romanian 137
16. Chapter 8 Identifying the subject of the mihi est construction 193
17. Part 3: Expansion of the non-canonical pattern
18. Chapter 9 Productivity of the mihi est construction 229
19. Chapter 10 Summary and conclusions 278
20. Bibliography 291
21. Appendices
22. Appendix 1 315
23. Appendix 2 323
24. Index of subjects 327
25. Index of names 331