… subject in finite clauses and also as an intermediate position in non-finite clauses (complements …
can check the EPP feature of a non-finite clause but not check its Case. In this sense the …

… This thesis examines the historical development of the expletive það in Icelandic, from the …
of Icelandic clause structure, with particular attention to verb-second, information structure and …

… Locative Inversion is that the Small Clause predicate PP occupies the structural subject
position. On the assumption that expletives also occupy the structural subject position, we could …

… clause may cooccur with an expletive element het (it), but this element is never present if the
complement clause … Note that the initial feature structure shown for the nite verb is the result …

… , pose a challenge to our understanding of expletives as being (i) exclusively structural in …
at phrase structure The definition in (5) thus allows for clause-peripheral expletives that occupy …

… clause structure for Icelandic can account for the distribution of null and overt expletives in
both matrix and embedded clauses. A … distribution of these expletives in embedded clauses. In …

… the expletive” (MI:126; our emphasis), but this emancipation of the expletive from the expletive-…
Assuming the minimal clause-level functional structure given by the three Core Functional …

… typically taken as expletive NPs, including those in extraposition structures. We will not …
, determining an expletive in the direct object position the extraposed clause would otherwise …

… types of clauses in terms of their internal structure, primarily … clauses like those in (130) is
often referred to as an expletive or dummy subject. Because of the presence of the expletive …

… though the proposal I will make ties expletive there more closely to various other … clause
structure, then the impossibility of (38)/(39) is actually a bit surprising, given that relative clauses …