Based on the analysis of texts written between 1650 and 2000 and characterized by their use of language of proximity, this study discusses the German pronoun es . The first section provides a semantic and morphosyntactic description of the phoric use of es . The second section discusses possibilities of a description of non-phoric es , based on the principles of valence theory and construction grammar.

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Dániel Czicza, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.