<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Maïa,<br><br></div>Miriam Meyerhoff has a good discussion of pro-drop in Bislama in her dissertation:<br><a href="https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9800901/">https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9800901/</a><br></div>(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.)<br><br></div>There's also a 2001 article with some of the same content:<br><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3623440">https://www.jstor.org/stable/3623440</a><br><br></div>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:<br></div>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.<br><div>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.<br><br></div><div>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).<br><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Daniel<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Maia Ponsonnet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au" target="_blank">maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Related to Honors supervision, I am looking for typological works on pro-drop. </p>
<p>Anything on pro-drop in creole languages will be particularly relevant. </p>
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<p>With many thanks for your help, cheers, </p>
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