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Expletive Syntax

Expletive Syntax is a syntactic phenomenon in Medieval Latin grammar wherein a formally required but semantically vacuous element, such as a dummy subject or pleonastic particle, occupies a structural position to satisfy grammatical constraints without contributing to propositional meaning.

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Is There a Little Pro? Evidence from Finnish

Anders Holmberg · Linguistic Inquiry · 2005 · 568 citations

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Scandinavian Stylistic Fronting: How Any Category Can Become an Expletive

Anders Holmberg · Linguistic Inquiry · 2000 · 439 citations

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<b>Verb movement and expletive subjects in the Germanic languages</b> . By Sten Vikner. (Oxford studies in comparative syntax.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 294.

Ans van Kemenade · Language · 1998 · 430 citations

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A–movement and the EPP

Željko Bošković · Syntax · 2002 · 428 citations

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Two Heads Aren’t Always Better Than One

Jonathan David Bobaljik, Höskuldur Þráinsson · Syntax · 1998 · 427 citations

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Authors

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  1. MT
    M. Teresa Espinal

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    4 publications · 89 citations

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  2. JN
    Juvénal Ndayiragije

    University of Toronto, Canada

    3 publications · 146 citations

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  3. NS
    Nicholas Sobin

    The University of Texas at El Paso, United States

    2 publications · 287 citations

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  4. PL
    Paul Law

    Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Germany

    2 publications · 38 citations

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  5. CF
    Claudia Felser

    University of Essex, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 46 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    125 citations

  2. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    112 citations

  3. Goethe University Frankfurt

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    145 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    44 citations

  5. Institute of Linguistics

    Moscow, Russia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    97 citations

  6. University of Iceland

    Reykjavik, Iceland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    456 citations

  7. South College

    Knoxville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    157 citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

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  1. Linguistic Inquiry

    12 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. The Linguistic Review

    5 publications · 546 citations

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  3. Lingua

    5 publications · 124 citations

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  4. Syntax

    4 publications · 1K citations

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  5. Glossa a journal of general linguistics

    3 publications · 55 citations

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