[Lingtyp] typological studies of pro-drop

[Daniel Ross]

Correction: Proquest finally loaded for me, and what I had noted as "open
access" was just in reference to the abstract. I didn't find an open access
version online, but hopefully your institution has access to Proquest.

In searching a bit I also came across this paper:
https://www.academia.edu/34124464/Null-Subjects_in_the_Creole_Basilect_of_Guyana

I haven't seen too much on this topic as the focus on papers, although this
is not specifically a topic of my research, just something that overlaps
with switch-reference. You may find some more things searching for them,
and I assume in grammars, at least descriptive details.

Daniel

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Daniel Ross <djross3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Maïa,
>
> Miriam Meyerhoff has a good discussion of pro-drop in Bislama in her
> dissertation:
> https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9800901/
> (The PDF is I believe open access on Proquest, linked from that page,
> although it isn't loading for me at the moment for some reason.)
>
> There's also a 2001 article with some of the same content:
> https://www.jstor.org/stable/3623440
>
> The article and dissertation also compare the use of overt/dropped
> subjects in Bislama to switch-reference (and echo-subject) systems, linking
> the two senses of "switch-reference" in the literature:
> 1. The morphosyntactic marker sense, referring to medial verb suffixes
> that indicate whether the subject of the following clause is the same as
> the subject as the next or not.
> 2. Popularized by Cameron 1995, and originating with Carmen
> Silva-Corvalán's 1977 MA thesis based indirectly on discussions of the
> other type of SR by other researchers in California at the time (Munro,
> etc.), "switch-reference" also now is used in discussions of especially
> Spanish pragmatics/acquisition regarding when subjects are dropped,
> specifically in the same subject context whereas new subjects ('switch
> reference') often do not result in a dropped pronoun.
>
> The first is a generally obligatory morphosyntactic phenomenon, while the
> second is a statistical pattern. Givón has also written some things that
> link the two in a pragmatic sense. Of course the Bislama case is more like
> the second because there is no obligatory marking of SR in Bislama. And the
> presense of SR in that statistical pro-drop sense appears to apply to all
> languages studied so far, as far as I know, from various Romance languages
> to others like Japanese and Chinese, and even in some signed languages.
> Givón's work also suggests something similar for AND vs. BUT conjunctions
> in English and other languages (the former more common for same-subject and
> the latter for different-subject).
>
> Meyerhoff's work addresses pro-drop in Bislama directly. But I mention the
> rest as a way of considering pro-drop statistically from a comparative
> perspective in case that helps.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Maia Ponsonnet <maia.ponsonnet at uwa.edu.au
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> Related to Honors supervision, I am looking for typological works on
>> pro-drop.
>>
>> Anything on pro-drop in creole languages will be particularly relevant.
>>
>>
>> With many thanks for your help, cheers,
>>
>> Maïa
>>
>>
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