Three types of null subjects are distinguished: referential, expletive and arbitrary. By convention, the null subject is usually annotated in the first position inside IP – only CONJ, INTJ/INTJP, NP-VOC, movement traces (*T*, *, *ICH*) and left-dislocated elements may precede it in the represented structure (see The position and order of empty categories). |
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