Original sentence: Another striking example of a French pleonastic construction is the word aujourd'hui "today", but originally meaning "on the day of today".In this case, the pronoun yo ("I") is grammatically optional; both sentences mean "I love you" (however, they may not have the same tone or intention — this depends on pragmatics rather than grammar).Since Spanish is a null subject language, which allows for subject pronouns to be deleted when understood, the following sentences mean the same:.Syntactic pleonasm occurs when the grammar of a language makes certain function words optional.The process of deleting pronouns is called pro-dropping, and it also happens in many other languages, like Portuguese, some Slavic languages, Finnish, and Lao.The same phenomenon occurs in Spanish with subject pronouns.The word comes originally from Greek πλεονασμóς pleonasmos ("excess")
Edited sentence: (However, they may not have the same tone or intention — this depends on pragmatics rather than grammar.Another striking example of a French pleonastic construction is the word aujourd'hui, translated as today but syntactically meaning "on the day which is this day".Consider the following sentences:.In this case, the pronoun yo ("I") is grammatically optional; both sentences mean the same thing ("I love you").Spanish is considered a null subject language because pronoun subjects are usually optional.Syntactic pleonasm occurs when a language's grammar makes certain function words optional.The process of deleting pronouns is called pro-dropping, and it also happens in Portuguese, some Slavic languages, in Finnish, and in Lao.The word comes originally from Greek πλεονασμóς pleonasmos (="excess")