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<p>Dear all,</p>
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<p>may I refer to a paper of mine, published in 2014 "On the strength of morphological paradigms: a historical account of radical pro-drop", published in:<span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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Robbeets, M. and Bisang, W. (eds.), </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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Change in Historical Reconstruction: The Transeurasian Languages and Beyond</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
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2360. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins.</span> </p>
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<p>With best wishes,</p>
<p>Walter Bisang<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 5, 2018 3:30:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Martin Haspelmath<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] typological studies of "pro-drop"</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Maļa, Dear all,
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<div>Possibly also relevant is Safiyyah Saleem's MA thesis:</div>
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<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>
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This reports on a computational implementation of argument optionality patterns as understood from the typological literature.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Martin Haspelmath <span dir="ltr">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">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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<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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