Programm 80. StuTS

The poster challenges the well-established term ‘pro-drop’ and argues that it reflects an English bias. Based on corpus data from Slovene, it shows that the term inaccurately describes a language where the absence of pronominal subjects is the default. It therefore calls for terminology that does not take English as its main point of reference. It also examines the pragmatic functions of overt pronominal subjects, such as emphasis, contrast, and topic shift.