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parasitic gap

noun

Definitions

  1. A construction wherein the dropping of an argument is dependent on a covarying argument…

    A construction wherein the dropping of an argument is dependent on a covarying argument having been fronted in a local context, as in "Which book did she review without reading?".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parasitic gap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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