<div dir="ltr">Dear Maïa, Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Possibly also relevant is Safiyyah Saleem's MA thesis:</div><div><br></div><div><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;list-style:none;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/safiyyah-saleem-59946117" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(53,76,153);text-decoration:none">Safiyyah Saleem</a><span> </span>(<a href="http://compling.uw.edu/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(53,76,153);text-decoration:none">CLMA</a>) 2010.<span> </span><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(53,76,153);text-decoration:none;border:0px;outline:0px"><a href="http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/saleem-thesis.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(53,76,153);text-decoration:none">Argument Optionality: A New Library for the Grammar Matrix Customization System</a></em></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><font color="#333333" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/saleem-thesis.pdf">http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/saleem-thesis.pdf</a></span></font><br></li></ul>This reports on a computational implementation of argument optionality patterns as understood from the typological literature.</div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Martin Haspelmath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de" target="_blank">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</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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See the APiCS chapter on the "expression of pronominal subjects"
(<a class="m_-2129047523222547635moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apics-online.info/parameters/62.chapter.html" target="_blank">http://apics-online.info/<wbr>parameters/62.chapter.html</a>), inspired by
Matthew Dryer's corresponding WALS feature
(<a class="m_-2129047523222547635moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wals.info/feature/101A" target="_blank">http://wals.info/feature/101A</a><wbr>).<br>
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I would also recommend Anna Siewierska's works, especially her 1999
paper (in Folia Linguistica) and her 2004 book (Person).<br>
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But I think it's important to recognize that the notion of
"pro-drop" is very confusing, and remains popular only because many
linguists don't know much more than English and Spanish (and they
feel that Spanish "drops" what would be a personal pronoun in
English). In fact, however, the Spanish type is FAR more common in
the world's languages than the Swedish type (where subject personal
pronouns are obligatory, and there is no person-marking on the verb
at all), as can be seen in Matthew Dryer's WALS chapter. The
English/German type (with obligatory personal pronouns, plus
person-marking on the verb) is extremely rare (as noted by
Siewierska 1999).<br>
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(Note also that "person-drop" would be a better term, because not
all pronouns can be "dropped", e.g. interrogatives and
demonstratives.)<br>
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Martin<br>
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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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