Expletiveness in grammar and beyond

• Published in: Glossa (London) Vol. 7; no. 1
• Main Authors: Tsiakmakis, Evripidis, Espinal, M. Teresa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Open Library of Humanities 31.05.2022
• Subjects: expletiveness; identity function; Research Article; semantic expletives; speech acts; syntactic expletives; syntactic expletives; speech acts; semantic expletives; identity function; expletiveness

This paper sets out to find the defining characteristics of so-called expletive categories and the consequences the existence of such categories has for Universal Grammar. Looking into different instantiations of expletive subjects and impersonal pronouns, definite articles, negative markers and plu...