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====Italian==== {{interlinear|indent=3 |Vedi questo tronchetto? Andrebbe bene per il fuoco. Γ completamente secco. |See this log? {Would go} well for the campfire. Is completely dry. |Do ('''you''') see this log? ('''It''') would be fit for the campfire. ('''It''') is completely dry.}} Italian further demonstrates full pro-drop by allowing for the possibility of a salient, referential, definite subject of finite clauses. With respect to the [[Null subject parameter]] (NSP), this will be analyzed using the phrase 'S/he speaks Italian.'<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sessarego |first1=Sandro |last2=Gutierrez-Rexach |first2=Javier |title=Revisiting the Null Subject Parameter: New Insights from Afro-Peruvian Spanish |journal=Open Journal of Romance Linguistics |date=2017 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=43β68 |doi=10.5565/rev/isogloss.26 |url=https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v3-n1-sessarego-gutierrez |access-date=12 December 2021|doi-access=free |hdl=10256/15298 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Italian has a [+] value: :''Parla italiano''. (Italian, +NSP) A non pro-drop language, such as English, has a [-] value for NSP and thus does not allow for that possibility: : *Speaks Italian. (English, -NSP)
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