Impersonal Modal Construction
From Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC)
Parsed with an expletive, overt or covert.
Ekki má gefa börnum brauð (NP-SBJ *exp*)
Það má ekki gefa börnum brauð (Það = NP-SBJ ES)
Also used with an expletive with a direct object instead of IP-INF:
( (IP-MAT (NP-SBJ *exp*) (NP-OB1 (D-A Þessa) (NS-A imbrudaga)) (MDPI skal) (VB halda) (PP (PP (P of) (NP (N-A vor))) (CONJP (CONJ og) (PP (P of) (NP (N-A sumar)))) (, ,-,) (CONJP (PP (P of) (NP (N-A haust)))) (CONJP (CONJ og) (PP (P of) (NP (N-A vetur))))) (. .-.)))