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This paper is aimed at analysing some parametric variation involved in impersonal-il extraposition constructions in French. These French constructions, generally considered as corresponding to English counterparts that weren't taken care of here, manifest a wider variety of parametric variation in their syntactic operations. We verified that this kind of variation in French is based on the distinct morpho-lexical features of expletive-il, thus having [3rdpers, masc, sing, nom] features. In addition, the pronominal feature of French expletive-il has to be checked through the agreement with the following verb. This fact means that French expletive-il cannot be placed in the real (semantic) subject positions in infinitival and gerundival constructions