ABSTRACT
Linguists have disagreed about the treatment of these 'pre-verbal oblique nominals'. The following quote from Einarsson about examples illustrates the problem: 'Some verbs take the logical subject in the accusative, and the object in the accusative. These are really impersonal verbs with two accusatives; they tend to have the word order: logical subject, verb, object'. It begins by stating that 'it is often desired to use verbs without mentioning any subject if a subject exists at all', but some of the constructions contain 'logical subjects' according to Einarsson, some contain indefinite subjects, and some contain dummy subjects. Some no overt subject at all, neither 'logical' or 'grammatical'. The above mentioned collection of 'impersonal' constructions in Einarsson's book contains a number of constructions with PVONS, and it is remarked that 'Verbs expressing processes of the mind, sensations, thoughts, feelings, etc. are often impersonal.
