Romanian plăcea ‘like’: an alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verb

• Published in: Probus
• Main Authors: Ilioaia, Mihaela, Van Peteghem, Marleen, Barðdal, Jóhanna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 14.07.2025

In several Indo-European languages, including Romanian, predicates such as plăcea ‘like’ from Latin placēre ‘like, please’, are found selecting for a dative experiencer and a nominative stimulus, which appear to allow for two opposite, but equally neutral, word orders, i.e. dative-before-nominative...