Meaning of shadow pronoun | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of resumptive pronoun.

Examples

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

“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.”

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

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