English words containing inserted expletives, like absobloodylutely or unbefuckinglievable , are often said to be created by ‘infixation’. One goal of this work is argue that such claims self-contradictory. Infixes affixes, but the expletives not. Rather, they themselves morphologically complex, not bound, and can occur with from different syntactic categories. Hence, full words, only property ...

We propose an analysis for expletive-associate constructions within the minimalist framework outlined by Chomsky (1991, and later). Specifically, we argue that the expletive is an argument expression that must raise to the (most) external subject position in order to satisfy the Extended Projection Principle and check nominative case, while number agreement is checked by the associate. We prese...

Abstract This paper examines expletive negation in root clauses (surprise sentences and wh-exclamatives) Hungarian. We argue that Hungarian has three distinct positions, each corresponding to a truth-reversal operation on different level. When the negator nem ‘no’ is merged CP layer (in head position of Speaker Deixis Phrase), this yields surprise sentences, at level presuppositions (expletive ...

The paper examines the properties of sentential negation in Standard Arabic (henceforth SA) and Saudi Northern Region Dialect SNRDA), focusing on similarities differences use distribution (Note 1). In this paper, I propose that facts standard dialectal versions receive a unified account despite their apparent differences. provide some empirical conceptual evidence workability for Neg-Above-T an...

We present a tool, called ILIMP, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive. This tool is therefore designed to distinguish between the anaphoric occurrences of il, for which an anaphora resolution system has to look for an antecedent...