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Bolinger, Dwight. 1973. Ambient 'it' is meaningful too. Journal of Linguistics 9 : 261–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

impersonal construction

Language as a subject

English

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

B. discusses the meaning of 'it' in impersonal constructions such as 'it's hot', with particular reference to W.L.Chafe's (1970: 'Meaning and the structure of language') approach.