Cycle de colloques "Les Subordonnées complétives"
Organisation
Friederike Moltmann, Kalle MULLER et Clémentine RAFFY (Equipe Dialectologie et Linguistique formelle)
-On Expletive "es" in German-
par Roland HINTERHÖLZL (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
https://www.unive.it/data/persone/5593029
16H-18H sur Zoom
Abstract
The present paper proposes an alternative analysis of so-called expletive es in German.
I argue that es is a demonstrative pronoun with a weak definite interpretation that binds a situation argument and as such serves to anchor the utterance as a thetic judgment in the context.