Speaker | Roland Hinterhölzl |
Affiliaton(s) | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia |
Date | 01.02.2024, 14:00 - 15:30 Uhr |
Time | 14:00 o'clock |
Venue | ZAS, Pariser Str. 1, 10719 Berlin; Room: 0.32 (Ground floor) |
The present paper proposes an alternative analysis of so-called expletive es in German. It is argued that es is a demonstrative pronoun with a weak definite interpretation that binds a situation argument and as such serves to anchor the utterance in the context.