RT Book,_Section
T1 Complexity and pronoun drop in contact varieties of English
A1 Tamaredo Meira, Iván
A2 Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto
A2 Porto Requejo, María Dolores
K1 Complexity
K1 Contact
K1 Pronoun drop
K1 Varieties of English
AB The present paper argues that speakers of high-contact varieties of Englishdrop pronouns more frequently than those of low-contact ones. This can be explainedby the fact that high-contact varieties are or were used mainly as second languages bymany members of their speech communities. Pronoun drop is a grammatical featurethat produces simpler structures, and second language users prefer simpler structures.Using data extracted from the Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English and theInternational Corpus of English, the results of the study suggest that high-contactvarieties of English favour pronoun omission.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31882
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31882
LA eng
NO Tamaredo, I. (2015). Complexity and pronoun drop in contact varieties of English. In Alberto Lázaro Lafuente & María Dolores Porto Requejo, eds. English and American Studies in Spain: New developments and trends. (Obras colectivas: Humanidades 47). Universidad de Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones, 235-243. ISBN: 978-84-16599-11-0
DS Minerva
RD 25 abr 2026