– Roland Hinterhölzl : On Expletive « es » in German

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{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->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.