donkey pronoun

noun

The pronoun, in a donkey sentence, whose syntactic role poses a challenge.

Meanings

noundonkey pronoun (plural donkey pronouns)

plural donkey pronouns

  1. grammarThe pronoun, in a donkey sentence, whose syntactic role poses a challenge.
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