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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It seems that the most important contributions to these questions are still Siewierska (2004: "Person") and Dryer (2005) (his WALS chapter on the expression of pronominal subjects; here's the 2013 version:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wals.info/chapter/101">https://wals.info/chapter/101</a>).<br>
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It's actually a bit embarrassing that there is so little worldwide research on this – but it illustrates the fact that while typological research is in high demand, there are few people who are actually doing it.<br>
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But of course, there are also the big conceptual problems that contiue to haunt us – here, the fact that "pro-drop" is an English-based stereotype that does not really translate into a clear typological parameter. Should we say that the subject is "dropped"
in a Spanish sentence like "vien-es?" ("Are you coming?), where the suffix "-es" expresses the 2nd person subject? This seems Anglocentric. (More about this here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1340">https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1340</a>)<br>
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But regardless of what exactly we mean by "dropping", these core questions need to be studied further if we want an unbiased understanding of the world's grammars.<br>
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Best,<br>
Martin<br>
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On 13.02.20 23:15, Kristen Howell wrote:<br>
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<div>Is anyone aware of a typological survey on argument optionality or pro-drop cross linguistically. In particular, I am trying to find out what is the most common way pro-drop occurs (or doesn't occur). For example:</div>
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<div>-subject dropping does not occur</div>
<div>-subject dropping is only allowed for certain verbs</div>
<div>-subject dropping is allowed for any verb</div>
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<div>And similarly for objects:</div>
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<div>-object dropping does not occur</div>
<div>-object dropping is only allowed for certain verbs</div>
<div>-object dropping is allowed for any verb</div>
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<div>I'd be grateful for any pointers to a survey which can answer this question. I'm happy to take suggestions off list and will post a summary of results.</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance,</div>
<div>Kristen</div>
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