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Peter Herbeck, Bernhard Pöll & Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Foreword
Hubert Haider: On expletive, semantically void, and absent subjects
Janayna Carvalho: Incorporated subjects in Existential Impersonal Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese
Thórhallur Eythórsson, Anton Karl Ingason & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson: Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonals
Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir & Joan Maling: From passive to active: diachronic change in impersonal constructions
Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Impersonal interpretations of Medieval Romance se - tracing initial contexts
Eduardo Amaral & Wiltrud Mihatsch: Incipient impersonal pronouns in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese based on pessoa, pessoal and povo
Hubert Haider: On expletive, semantically void, and absent subjects
Janayna Carvalho: Incorporated subjects in Existential Impersonal Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese
Thórhallur Eythórsson, Anton Karl Ingason & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson: Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonals
Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir & Joan Maling: From passive to active: diachronic change in impersonal constructions
Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Impersonal interpretations of Medieval Romance se - tracing initial contexts
Eduardo Amaral & Wiltrud Mihatsch: Incipient impersonal pronouns in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese based on pessoa, pessoal and povo
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