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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I appreciate Gideon's message, which says
explicitly what I did not want to develop further. I quite agree that, as he
writes, the " 'pro-drop' issue in formal linguistics has brought about a certain
amount of confusion". The distinction I propose between personal pronoun and
person index is precisely meant to recall that many so-called pro-drop languages
do not by any means "drop" the person marker, if we mean thereby the affixed
person index and not the personal pronoun.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All best, Claude.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>