Abstract
I advance a new analysis of the expletive construction in which expletive there occurs in Spec of NP. From this analysis it follows that expletive there occurs only when it is followed by an indefinite nominal associate. This analysis not only accounts for the relevant range of data but also enables us to dispense with the exceptional treatment of expletive there regarding the assumption that a strong feature induces overt movement and the assumption that α is in a checking relation only if α heads a nontrivial chain.
