Pro-drop language
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pro-drop-language-182-14732606
title:
Pro-drop language
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A pro-drop language is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically inferable. The precise conditions vary from language to language, and can be quite intricate. The phenomenon of "pronoun-dropping" is part of the larger topic of zero or null anaphora. The connection between pro-drop languages and null anaphora relates to the fact that a dropped pronoun has referential properties, and so is crucially not a null dummy pronoun. Pro-
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Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language
date created:
2004-12-13T12:04:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T12:15:58Z
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