Scandinavian Stylistic Fronting: How Any Category Can Become an Expletive

By Anders Holmberg. Linguistic Inquiry, 2000

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Head Movement in Linguistic Theory (2006, background): “Svenonius (1994), Holmberg (2000a), and Julien (2000) use a special c-feature for the job.”
Adpositions, particles and the arguments they introduce (2007, background): “…is satisfied by null elements like trace in English, but apparently not in Vata (Koopman 1984); Icelandic also shows signs of a phonological EPP (Holmberg 2000); EPP appears to be absent in Irish (McCloskey 1996); EPP is arguably active in C in Dutch and German, In T in English, and in both in…”
The case of PRO (2008, background): “…rather formal, but it applies commonly in finite clauses with a ‘subject gap’, that is to say in clauses where the canonical subject positions, Spec,IP / Spec,CP, are not occupied by a lexical subject (Maling 1980; Rögnvaldsson and Thráinsson 1990; Holmberg 2000; but see also Hrafnbjargarson 2004).”
Is There a Little Pro? Evidence from Finnish (2005, unknown): “See Holmberg 2000.”