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Conlangery #22: Pronouns

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English is an example of a language that's not very pro drop at all. In English, you have fewer chances to do that than in the language like Spanish where it's marked on the verb. So pragmatically you can get away with it pretty much whenever you want. William: Do you know of any languages that are more militant than English that keeping pronouns? No. I'm going to say. And somebody will probably correct me on this and maybe as restricted as it has to be a secondary clause with the same subject or something. We're much less likely to drop object pronouns just because then that leaves the transitive view of too many verbs in question. But we don't drop objects

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