<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Maïa,<div class="">For completeness’ sake, you should include the follow great early article, in 1975 arguing for a functionalist/explanatory account of the form of pronouns and pronominalization, including “null” subjects like in “Equi-NP deletion":<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Heath, Jeffrey. 1975. Functional relationships in grammar. <i class="">Language</i> 51.1: 89-104.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Historical note: This article was influential in the development of Role and Reference Grammar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Randy<br class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Mar 2018, at 4:15 PM, Maia Ponsonnet <<a href="mailto:maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au" class="">maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Following my request for references on "pro-drop" I have received a number of very useful recommendations. Many thanks for your numerous ad detailed responses on this. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">It is trully awesome to be able to rely on such a generous and knowledgeable community. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">For future reference, here is <span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">a file with the references in question. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">(I hope I haven't forgotten any.) </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Many thanks, cheers, </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Maïa</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
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