Publications
Publication details [#23358]
Prince, Ellen. 1988. The discourse functions of Yiddisch expletive ES+subject-postposing. Papers in Pragmatics 2 (1-2) : 176–194. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal DOI
10.1075/iprapip
Annotation
Postposing of subjects in Yiddish is found to mark the subject as being in a certain relation to the pior context, i.e. a 'null relation'. The same function can be fulfilled by mid-position subjects, provided the use of expletive 'es'.