Knock! Knock! Who's there?

[H.-J. Sasse]

> I'm not aware, in my limited knowledge, of any language that in one way or
> another (sub_pro, COP, V, marker) doesn't specify a syntagmatic referent
> with respect to the nom_pred; that is, is there any known language in which
> the nom_pred suffices for its subject referent as well (*"Student", meaning
> "I am a student")?

In Hungarian, which has no copula in the 3rd person,  it is quite normal to use
the predicate noun without any subject pronoun (precisely the type "Student."
meaning "He/She is a student." that Seth was alluding to).

H.J.Sasse