[Lingtyp] Partial pro-drop

[Greville Corbett]

Here is a comparison across various Slavonic languages, which are pro-drop to different degrees.
Seo, Seunghyun. 2001. The frequency of null subject in Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian and Serbo-
Croatian: an analysis according to morphosyntactic environments. PhD dissertation, Indiana
University. Distributed by UMI, Ann Arbor, reference 3038515.
Very best
Grev


On 29 Oct 2025, at 15:58, Silvia Luraghi via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

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
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Il giorno mer 29 ott 2025 alle ore 16:52 Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto: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/fundus/pdf.gif]<https://www.christianlehmann.eu/publ/lehmann_pronombre.pdf> ]

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