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Language StudiesEnglishLinguisticsMorphologySyntaxCase MarkingCase MorphologyInflectional MorphologyMorphological FeaturesSyntactic TypologyVerbal TypologyExpletive SubjectsNull Subject ConstructionsNull Subject InterpretationNull Subject PhenomenaNull Subject VariationNull SubjectsSubjects
If we look at subtypes of expletive subjects, as identified by Svenonius (2002:5) for English, for example, we see that they can be pronouns, as is the case for extrapositional it or weather it, or they can consist of a locative element, like
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