Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1 Romanian between Romance and South-East European languages -- Chapter 2 The object of the study -- Part 1: The mihi est construction -- Chapter 3 The mihi est construction as a complex-predicate construction -- Chapter 4 Corpus and methodology -- Chapter 5 Nouns entering the mihi est construction -- Part 2: The subject and its properties -- Chapter 6 The subject: Toward a universal definition -- Chapter 7 Subject properties in Romanian -- Chapter 8 Identifying the subject of the mihi est construction -- Part 3: Expansion of the non-canonical pattern -- Chapter 9 Productivity of the mihi est construction -- Chapter 10 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index of subjects -- Index of names