Replication Data for: Constructing Meaning: Historical Changes in MIHI EST and HABEO Constructions in Romanian

<p>In the present study, the evolution of two Latin patterns, MIHI EST and HABEO, is investigated for Romanian, paying special attention to the set of nouns with which they occur. In the literature, the MIHI EST pattern is mostly associated with nouns from the field of psychological and physiological states in Romanian, while for HABEO, no semantic categories have been proposed (cf. Ilioaia 2020, 2021; Ilioaia and Van Peteghem 2021; Vangaever and Ilioaia 2021). Bearing this in mind, the question arises as to how the two constructions interact with the set of nouns with which they occur throughout the six centuries documented for Romanian (16th – 21st c.). </p>
<p>In order to understand the dynamics of the set of nouns that occur with the MIHI EST and HABEO constructions, I carried out a corpus study based on texts from pre-21st century Romanian and from the present-day language. For pre-21st century Romanian, I worked with a corpus made by myself, which is accessible on demand for research purposes on the Sketch Engine platform. This corpus, labelled Pre-21st century Romanian, contains nearly six million words and comprises several types of texts: administrative, religious, literature. As for the present-day language, I worked with the Romanian Web 2016 (roTenTen16) corpus containing over two billion words from types of texts that can be found on the web, namely news/commercial/specialized websites, blogs, forums, which was compiled and made available on Sketch Engine.</p>
<p>In addition to the .csv file with the data, I include in this dataset a codebook for the respective data file, as well as files containing tables and graphs used in the related publication.</p>