NDLI: Restricted pro drop in Early Modern Dutch

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Author	Ackema, Peter Neeleman, Ad
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	In this paper, we argue that Early Modern Dutch allowed pro drop, despite the fact that the language has only poor agreement. This provides a direct counterexample to the standard view that Italian-style pro drop is subject to a condition of grammatical recoverability (in that the features of pro must be indexed on the verb). However, pro drop in Early Modern Dutch is subject to very strict pragmatic conditions, and this, we argue, does follow from the lack of rich agreement. Basing ourselves on Mira Ariel’s Accessibility Theory, we argue that if fewer features of an omitted subject are grammatically recoverable, its antecedent must be more salient in discourse. Consequently, there is an indirect relation between rich agreement and pro drop: rich agreement facilitates pro drop in more contexts. Since a very limited distribution of pro drop implies that the rule is vulnerable in diachronic development, the familiar cross-linguistic generalization can be derived.
Starting Page	81
Ending Page	107
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13834924
Journal	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728552
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2007-07-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Accessibility theory Early Modern Dutch Pro drop (Rich) Agreement Topic drop Theoretical Languages Syntax Comparative Linguistics Germanic Languages Linguistics (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Linguistics and Language

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