Fortune and Decay of Lexical Expletives in Germanic and Romance along the Adige River - Tomaselli, Alessandra; Bidese, Ermenegildo (Languages (Basel), 2023)
Keywords: Clauses; Cleft constructions; Diachronic linguistics; Dialects; Evaluation; Expletives; Finiteness; Germanic languages; impersonal subjects; Language contact; Language varieties; Lexicalization; Linguistics; null subject parameter (NSP); positional expletives; Pro drop parameter; pro-drop; Pronouns; Romance languages; Sentence structure; subject inversion; Syntax; Venetian language; verb second (V2); Verbs; Italy; Adige River