shadow pronoun

plural shadow pronouns

1. grammarSynonym of resumptive pronoun.

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

   1980, Linguistic Inquiry - Volume 11, Issues 2-4, page 367

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   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.

   1980, Saadun Ismail Suaieh, Aspects of Arabic Relative Clauses, page 231

   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.

   1989, James Milroy, Regional Variation in British English Syntax, page 46

   The crucial distinction is not subject clitic versus object clitic, but shadow pronoun versus free anaphor.

   2004, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002, page 164

   Synonyms: resumptive pronoun