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Pro-Drop Typology in Indo-European Languages
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I'm very skeptical about the very notion of pro-drop it is not a feature of syntax but rather of text. However, a typology of subject marking across IE languages is not a bad idea.
Slavonic languages generally have rich enough verbal morphology not to need explicit subject marking. Yet, they vary in the degree they mark subject external to the verb. In a language like Czech, using the pronoun is similar to raising in English, whereas in Russian it is pretty much obligatory.
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