Query Details
| Query Subject: |
A question
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| Author: | Abdulaziz Al-Najmi | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Morphology
Syntax |
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| Subject Language(s): |
Chinese, Mandarin
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| Query: |
I'm working on a paper on the Pro-drop parameter phenomena and I would like
to know how could a language like Chinese, for instance, be a pro-drop language. As we know that in pro-drop languages like Spanish or Arabic, the pronoun could be recovered from the verb. Spanish verbs, for instance, are inflected for number, person, tense, and mood. In contrast, a language like Chinese, also null-subject language, has no inflectional affixation at all. In such case, how could we know which pronoun is refered to in a subjectless Chinese sentence. |
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| LL Issue: | 10.1391 | |
| Date posted: | 22-Sep-1999 | |
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