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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

by 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.