[Lingtyp] typological studies of "pro-drop"

[Emily M. Bender]

Dear Maïa, Dear all,

Possibly also relevant is Safiyyah Saleem's MA thesis:


   - Safiyyah Saleem <https://www.linkedin.com/in/safiyyah-saleem-59946117>
   (CLMA <http://compling.uw.edu/>) 2010. *Argument Optionality: A New
   Library for the Grammar Matrix Customization System
   <http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/saleem-thesis.pdf>*
   - http://www.delph-in.net/matrix/saleem-thesis.pdf

This reports on a computational implementation of argument optionality
patterns as understood from the typological literature.

Emily

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Martin Haspelmath <haspelmath at shh.mpg.de>
wrote:

> See the APiCS chapter on the "expression of pronominal subjects" (
> http://apics-online.info/parameters/62.chapter.html), inspired by Matthew
> Dryer's corresponding WALS feature (http://wals.info/feature/101A).
>
> I would also recommend Anna Siewierska's works, especially her 1999 paper
> (in Folia Linguistica) and her 2004 book (Person).
>
> 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).
>
> (Note also that "person-drop" would be a better term, because not all
> pronouns can be "dropped", e.g. interrogatives and demonstratives.)
>
> Martin
>
> On 05.03.18 08:10, Maia Ponsonnet wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> Related to Honors supervision, I am looking for typological works on
> pro-drop.
>
> Anything on pro-drop in creole languages will be particularly relevant.
>
>
> With many thanks for your help, cheers,
>
> Maïa
>
>
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