Re: Phenomena
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 3, 2000, 16:03 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Exactly! We say 'il pleut', quite the same constructions as in English
> (languages with mandatory subject, even a dummy one, I call them).
Known by the incredibly silly name "non-pro-drop languages". ObConlang:
Brithenig is non-pro-drop. There is a theory that all non-pro-drop
languages either are, or formerly were, verb-second as well.
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