<div dir="ltr"><div>In Italian, the singular forms of the subjunctive are syncretic. The subject that cannot usually be dropped is the second person; in general, the second person subject seems to be the one that is least likely to be dropped in Northern Italian varieties that have obligatory (but in some cases 'droppable') subject prefixes. </div><div>On the other hand, in Hittite, normally a pro-drop language, third person subjects of intransitive verbs are obligatory.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Silvia Luraghi<br>Università di Pavia<br>Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica <br>Strada Nuova 65<br>I-27100 Pavia<br>tel.: +39/0382/984685<div style="display:inline"></div><div>Web page personale: <a href="https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=68" target="_blank">https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=68</a></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mer 29 ott 2025 alle ore 16:52 Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>In Spanish, the first and third person
singular of the verb are syncretic in most TAM categories. Lehmann
2009 shows that in a relatively small portion of occurrences, the
reference is disambiguated by a subject pronoun. In the majority
of relevant cases, the task of disambiguation is just left to the
hearer.<br>
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Lehmann, Christian 2009, “El papel del pronombre personal sujeto
en la desambiguación de formas verbales sincréticas”. Sánchez
Miret, Fernando (ed.), <i>Romanistica sin complejos. Homenaje a
Carmen Pensado</i>. Bern etc.: P. Lang; 147-170. <u></u>[ <a href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/publ/lehmann_pronombre.pdf" target="_blank">descargar<img src="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/fundus/pdf.gif"></a> ]<u></u></div>
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