Re: Pro-drop was RE: Conlang collaboration

Dan Sulani wrote:

> What exactly is meant by "pro-drop"?
A tendency to drop unnecessary subject pronouns that are implied in
inflexions on the vowel.

In a hypothetical conlang: -im 1st p. sing. pres, -ew 1st p. pl pres,
-y 2nd p. sing. pres, -ies 2nd p. pl pres, -ith 3rd p. pl pres else as
english*:

In 'I killim him', the I is implied by the -im, so it could be 'Killim him'.
In 'You killy him', the You(sing) is implied  by the -ea, so it could be
'Killy him'
In 'We killew him', the we is implied in the -ew, so it could be 'Killew
him'.

And so on. (No, I'm not murderous in real life.)

*The name of this conlang is A Hyphothetical Conlang and is very nice
for inflected examples when you only speak English.

Tristan.

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