On the Existence of Expletive Subjects in Russian
https://doi.org/10.31034/047.2018.03
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Abstract
According to traditional grammars, Russian does not contain expletive subjects. However,
investigations in the generative framework suggest, that the pronoun это with certain
predicates can be perceived as an expletive subject. The present article gives a short overview
of previous investigations and aims at providing a unified analysis of constructions with -o
final adverbial predicates or with the verbs бывать and нравиться.