shadow pronoun

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of resumptive pronoun.

    • Perlmutter proposes that all chopping rules are rules that leave a shadow pronoun subsequently deleted.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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