Illusions of transitive expletives in Middle English
Abstract This paper examines a type of existential there sentence found in Middle English that has been argued to have a structure similar to transitive expletive constructions (TECs) in other Germanic languages, or to follow from the presence of NegP below T during the relevant perio...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131771 |