Expletive dropping in Faroese: Two competing ways of expressing the world
In some languages with expletive subjects, these subjects are either optionally or mandatorily left out of the sentence if they cannot occur in its initial position, a phenomenon which will here be referred to as expletive dropping. Expletive dropping in Faroese is traditionally described as optiona...
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| Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/225 |