Hypercomplex Inversion and the Status of Expletive Pronouns
Richard Kayne
January 2022
 

The comparative study of Hypercomplex Inversion (HCI) in French and in the North Italian dialect of Carmignano di Brenta, in addition to being of interest in its own right, provides evidence suggesting that there are no expletive pronouns (in any language) in the strict sense of the term.
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keywords: hypercomplex, inversion, expletive, pronoun, french, comparative syntax, syntax
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