[Lingtyp] Partial pro-drop

[Silvia Luraghi]

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.
On the other hand, in Hittite, normally a pro-drop language, third person
subjects of intransitive verbs are obligatory.

Silvia Luraghi
Università di Pavia
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica
Strada Nuova 65
I-27100 Pavia
tel.: +39/0382/984685
Web page personale: https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=68


Il giorno mer 29 ott 2025 alle ore 16:52 Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> ha scritto:

> 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.
>
> Lehmann, Christian 2009, “El papel del pronombre personal sujeto en la
> desambiguación de formas verbales sincréticas”. Sánchez Miret, Fernando
> (ed.), *Romanistica sin complejos. Homenaje a Carmen Pensado*. Bern etc.:
> P. Lang; 147-170. [ descargar
> <https://www.christianlehmann.eu/publ/lehmann_pronombre.pdf> ]
>
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