definitions

resumptive pronoun

Linguistics.

a pronoun that appears in a sentence at a position from which something has been copied or moved by a transformational rule, as found in languages such as Irish, Welsh, Hebrew, and Arabic and in some nonstandard varieties of English, as him in (nonstandard) the man that I gave the book to him.

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Nearby words

resultant tone, resultingly, resume, resumption, resumptive, resumptive pronoun, resupinate, resupination, resupine, resupply, resurface
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