Replication Data for: To Like or to Please, That is the Question: The (Non-)Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Status of Old Norse-Icelandic Líka and Old English Lician ‘like’

<p><b>Dataset abstract:</b> This dataset provides the tokens on which the analysis in the upcoming article: "To Like or to Please, That is the Question: The (Non-)Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Status of Old Norse-Icelandic Líka and Old English Lician ‘like’" is based, which is submitted for publication.</p>

<p>The dataset contains a total of 576 Dat-Nom and Nom-Dat tokens collected for the Old Norse Icelandic verbs líka 'like', mislíka 'dislike', and duga 'suffice', as well as their Old English cognates (ge)lician 'like', mislician 'dislike', and dugan 'suffice'. For each token, both the nominative and the dative arguments are annotated for clause position, case marking, pronominality, pronoun type, person, number, definiteness, animacy, word length and syllable length. Additionally, each token is also annotated for main verb lemma, auxiliary verbs, translation, and translation assessment certainty. Finally, each token also includes bibliographical annotations, to retrieve the token within its critical edition of the original Old Norse-Icelandic or Old English text.</p>

<p>All tokens were gathered from two Old Norse-Icelandic corpora (the Saga Corpus; Íslenskt Textasafn), an Old Norse-Icelandic dictionary (the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose), and an Old English corpus (Dictionary of Old English Corpus).</p>