shadow pronoun
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English[edit]
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That is the shirt that she sewed a button onto it. |
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
shadow pronoun (plural shadow pronouns)
- (grammar) Synonym of resumptive pronoun
- 1980, Linguistic Inquiry - Volume 11, Issues 2-4, page 367:
- Perlmutter proposes that all chopping rules are rules that leave a shadow pronoun subsequently deleted.
- 1980, Saadun Ismail Suaieh, Aspects of Arabic Relative Clauses, page 231:
- Perlmutter (1972) proposes that all rules which move constituents over variables be considered "copying " rules. He further argues that if there is a rule which deletes the "shadow pronoun", i.e., the pronoun left behind by the copying rule, this Shadow Deletion rule will be sensitive to island constraints.
- 1989, James Milroy, Regional Variation in British English Syntax, page 46:
- Shadow pronouns are very frequent in spoken Scottish English but are also found in many varieties of informal English, for example in Ireland, England and the United States.
- 2004, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002, page 164:
- The crucial distinction is not subject clitic versus object clitic, but shadow pronoun versus free anaphor.