Cross-linguistic Variations of pro Licensing Conditions

Jinghua Zhang
2016 Journal of Language Teaching and Research  
Null subject languages are generally called pro-drop languages. According to the generative syntactic analysis, languages can be divided into pro-drop and non-pro-drop languages. Subject Agreement (AgrS) is argued to be the licensing condition for the null subject languages. Nevertheless, pro-drop licensing conditions may vary in different languages. This paper analyzes various null subject languages with different pro-drop licensing conditions from cross-linguistic perspective.
doi:10.17507/jltr.0703.09 fatcat:mseceheln5cuhjcyplegpos6cq