[Lingtyp] Typological survey of pro-drop

[Maria Polinsky]

there was a very good dissertation by Marco Nicolis on this topic:

https://books.google.no/books/about/On_Pro_drop.html?id=b7BZwAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

MP

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 9:15 AM Haspelmath, Martin <haspelmath at shh.mpg.de>
wrote:

> 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:
> https://wals.info/chapter/101).
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
> https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1340)
>
> 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.
>
> Best,
> Martin
>
> On 13.02.20 23:15, Kristen Howell wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> 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:
>
> -subject dropping does not occur
> -subject dropping is only allowed for certain verbs
> -subject dropping is allowed for any verb
>
> And similarly for objects:
> -object dropping does not occur
> -object dropping is only allowed for certain verbs
> -object dropping is allowed for any verb
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kristen
>
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