Null-expletive Subject in Japanese

The Loss of Old English Null Expletive ‘it’

3 Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types

null expletive pronoun: a minimalist approach‎

traditional work on pro-drop languages identified a set of parametric values ‎associated with the availability of null subjects, including the presence of null ‎expletive subjects. in the same vein, but more within the framework of minimalist ‎program, i will discuss while referential subjects may optionally be overt or covert ‎in the persian, expletives are obligatorily null. in this regard, a...

Full Expletive Fuzzy Languages

A word u ∈ A+ is an expletive for a fuzzy language λ if λ(xuy) = λ(xy) for all x, y ∈ A+. A full expletive fuzzy language is a fuzzy language in which the set of expletives is A+. Here we prove that the set of full expletive fuzzy languages is a variety and the associated pseudovariety of semigroups is that of midunit semigroups. Subject Classification: 20M35, 20M07, 68Q45

The Null Subject Parameter revisited. The evolution from null subject Spanish and Portuguese to Dominican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

This paper analyzes changes in the null subject parameter in Caribbean Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese varieties. Assuming a Minimalist framework that ascribes parametric variation to differences in lexical settings, it is argued that increased frequency of overt pronominals and an anti-locality principle against Spec, head grammatical interactions trigger a shift from interpretable to unintep...