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Furthermore, I’d describe GP’s comment as encouraging ‘pro-drop’ rather than any ‘voice’. (Though I suspect the technical details of syntactic terminology are s

by bradrn 5y ago

Furthermore, I’d describe GP’s comment as encouraging ‘pro-drop’ rather than any ‘voice’. (Though I suspect the technical details of syntactic terminology are somewhat irrelevant for résumé-writing.)

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foldr 5y ago
I'm afraid pro drop isn't technically right either, for a couple of reasons :D First, English doesn't have pro drop. Second, there's more than just the subject missing in "Former emergency response driver...". If you read it as elliptical of a sentence, then the sentence is something like "I am a former emergency response driver...". If English had pro drop, pro drop would give you "Am a former emergency response driver..."
- bradrn 5y ago
  > English doesn't have pro drop Depends on the situation! For me it’s grammatical in most informal texts, e.g. emails. (Also, the first sentence of this paragraph.) > Second, there's more than just the subject missing in "Former emergency response driver...". This is a good point; I did indeed miss this subtlety. (Actually, it’s not even very subtle!) In this case, I must admit to being unsure about how to analyse this.
  - foldr 5y ago
    >Depends on the situation! For me it’s grammatical in most informal texts, e.g. emails. (Also, the first sentence of this paragraph.) This isn't technically pro drop. It's a different process called "diary drop". By coincidence I wrote a rant about this only a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127035
    - bradrn 5y ago
      Huh, interesting — thanks for the pointer! I’ve been wondering about this for a while. Do you happen to have any more resources? (I enjoy linguistics, but haven’t really read much about syntax; my favourite topic is morphosyntactic alignment.)
      - foldr 5y ago
        It’s hard to find any good scholarly references on the differences between pro drop and diary drop (I guess because they are uncontroversial and not particularly subtle). However, section 4.2.1 of this MA dissertation has a decent, though very brief, summary: https://awweir.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/weir-ug-diss.pdf https://awweir.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/weir-ug-diss.pdf Similar observations are also made in the following paper: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/76381796.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/76381796.pdf
        bradrn 5y ago
        Again, thanks! I’ll read through these when I get some time.

by bradrn 5y ago

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foldr 5y ago

I'm afraid pro drop isn't technically right either, for a couple of reasons :D First, English doesn't have pro drop. Second, there's more than just the subject missing in "Former emergency response driver...". If you read it as elliptical of a sentence, then the sentence is something like "I am a former emergency response driver...". If English had pro drop, pro drop would give you "Am a former emergency response driver..."

bradrn 5y ago
> English doesn't have pro drop Depends on the situation! For me it’s grammatical in most informal texts, e.g. emails. (Also, the first sentence of this paragraph.) > Second, there's more than just the subject missing in "Former emergency response driver...". This is a good point; I did indeed miss this subtlety. (Actually, it’s not even very subtle!) In this case, I must admit to being unsure about how to analyse this.
- foldr 5y ago
  >Depends on the situation! For me it’s grammatical in most informal texts, e.g. emails. (Also, the first sentence of this paragraph.) This isn't technically pro drop. It's a different process called "diary drop". By coincidence I wrote a rant about this only a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127035
  - bradrn 5y ago
    Huh, interesting — thanks for the pointer! I’ve been wondering about this for a while. Do you happen to have any more resources? (I enjoy linguistics, but haven’t really read much about syntax; my favourite topic is morphosyntactic alignment.)
    - foldr 5y ago
      It’s hard to find any good scholarly references on the differences between pro drop and diary drop (I guess because they are uncontroversial and not particularly subtle). However, section 4.2.1 of this MA dissertation has a decent, though very brief, summary: https://awweir.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/weir-ug-diss.pdf https://awweir.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/weir-ug-diss.pdf Similar observations are also made in the following paper: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/76381796.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/76381796.pdf
      - bradrn 5y ago
        Again, thanks! I’ll read through these when I get some time.