Subject personal pronouns in Caribbean Spanish: The interplay of markedness of coding, statistical preemption, and structural priming. KU Leuven
In Spanish, speakers may refer to non-contrastive human-reference subjects with a combination of a subject personal pronoun (SPP) and the person-number ending of the verb (e.g., Yo trabajo I work) or only with the person-number ending (e.g., Trabajo [I] work). Earlier research has shown that the use of a SPP is more likely when the reference of the subject differs from that of the subject of the previous sentence, with first- and ...