"English sentences without overt grammatical subject"

We had a Ph. D. viva today and a small party afterwards.  We got onto interesting scholarly publications which reminded me of a paper which came out in my early career. It was by  Quang Phuc Dong (South Hanoi Institute of Technology) and I remember it in a French journal of linguistics (Langue) though most modern citations are to an English language journal (Language). Since we are now involved in chemical linguistics I mentioned it to Peter Corbett as something that would help us understand the deep structure of sentences
“English sentences without overt grammatical subject,”
It’s a classic not only in linguistics but in scholarship in general. I remember it as being in a physical journal article in the library. It’s not easy  to find  an Open Access online copy (though I suspect it was published before publishers started appropriating author’s work). It was a work of merit, being cited within a year (e.g. this Closed Access paper) and although Google Scholar only finds 3 citations (and does not give journal or other details) there are certainly more and this must be due to the difficulty of finding an indexable online version.
I obviously can’t reproduce it here as I would be breaking copyright and it would inappropriate to reproduce parts as it would not represent the full moral rights of the author. I have found what appears to be a pirate copy here (which it pains me to reference as almost all the work in this field – even 40 years old is quite rightly Closed Access and available at very reasonable prices).
For further information about the author, try Wikipedia.

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