pro-drop


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pro-drop

 (prō′drŏp′)
n.
The omission of a subject pronoun from a clause, occurring optionally in languages such as Spanish or Czech.

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(I shoot the Pro-Drop by AAE.) In my opinion, limb-driven rests are more precise than cable-driven rests; their action is much simpler and less likely to fail.
Linguists from the two countries examine such topics as the syntax of presentative sentence in Norwegian and Mandarin Chinese, nominal structure in early child Mandarin, temporal reference of bare verbs in Mandarin child language, pro-drop in Mandarin-Norwegian bilinguals, and the second-language acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese perfective marker -LE by first-language English speakers.
A cross-linguistic approach to the pro-drop parameter.
From the latter field we find locatives, metathesis, middle verbs, mimation, modal verbs, mood (Arabic dialects), mood (Standard Arabic), morphology, nasalization, number, numerals, nunation, object (absolute), palatalization, paronomasia, participle, parts of speech, passive, passive (syntax), pausal forms, performatives, personal pronouns (Arabic dialects), phonological merger, phonological split, poetic license, possession, predicate, prepositions, presentatives, pro-drop, pronominalization, proper names, prothetic vowel, pseudodual, pseudoverbs, punctuation.
It is claimed that these locatives, which are also shown to be full-blown referential metonymies, are optimal structural solutions in such pro-drop languages with a rich system of impersonal constructions as far as the complex task of maintaining nominal metonymic topic-continuity while switching between multiple metonymic targets.
The cabin is pro-drop quiet and the appointments are definitely Cadillac, a refinement and plushness that sets it apart from the Japanese and Teutonic competitors.