Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Evolutionary Linguistic Theory
Volume Number: 6
Issue Number: 1/2
Issue Date: 20250306

Subtitle: Special Issue: The Evolution of Expletives .Theoretical and diachronic perspectives

Main Text:

2024. v, 243 pp.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The evolution of expletives
Eric Fuß & Benjamin L. Sluckin | pp. 1–26

Articles

Time-clefts, expletives and orality in Early Icelandic saga narratives
Hannah Booth | pp. 27–58

Another adverbial expletive in German?
Nicholas Catasso | pp. 59–93

Locative-based expletives as situation proforms: Dutch er, German da and English there
Jutta M. Hartmann | pp. 94–121

Non-referential elements in the history of Low German
Svetlana Petrova | pp. 122–157

On the threefold typology of Scheinsubjekte : From Karl Brugmann to Cimbrian syntax
Alessandra Tomaselli & Ermenegildo Bidese | pp. 158–191

The covert perceiver in English locative inversion: An alternative to expletive pro
Benjamin L. Sluckin | pp. 192–243

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics