The Semantic-Syntactical Status of the Pro-form "ES" in the German Impersonal Sentences
The article considers various interpretations of the essence of the category of impersonality in German. The treatment of the status of the pro–form ES in the German impersonal sentences is offered, according to which the “impersonal” ES is a grammatical subject, has the status of an actant (complement), acting as an elementativ, i.e. the source causing somatic feelings, and is the carrier of a predicative feature.