Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 9:1 (1994) ► pp.1–24
Haitian Creole
A Pro-Drop Language?
Published online: 1 January 1994
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.9.1.02dep
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.9.1.02dep
Haitian Creole has been argued to be a pro-drop language whose null subjects are licensed by syntactic clitics (DeGraff 1993). This paper analyzes the properties of Haitian Creole pronominal subjects, expletive and argumentai, and argues on the basis of syntactic, phonological, and comparative considerations that Haitian Creole is better analyzed as a language whose argumentai subjects cannot be null and whose pronominal subjects occur in argumentai positions and cliticize in the phonological component.
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