resumptive pronoun

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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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Words nearby resumptive pronoun

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

How to use resumptive pronoun in a sentence

Oh, the heaven and hell wrought by the casual use of a pronoun.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He placed particular emphasis on the pronoun when he spoke the title aloud.
Can Bill Bratton Solve De Blasio’s NYPD Dilemma?|Michael Daly|December 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There's UP and US, and UT—an old name for the first (and last) tone, do, and WE (the funnest pronoun) and WO, which is woe.
National Scrabble Day: A Poem So You’ll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words|David Bukszpan|April 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The pronoun is deliberate: the Sims was one of the first games to be played by women in significant numbers.
SimCity Is Smarter Than You (Even If You’re an Urban Planner)|Josh Dzieza|February 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He asks, “What magic is there in the pronoun ‘my,’ that should justify us in overturning the decisions of impartial truth?”
Why Favoritism Is Virtuous: The Case Against Fairness|Stephen T. Asma|December 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The subject pronoun, when unemphatic, is not expressed, but understood from the termination of the verb.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
The relative object pronoun is often repeated as a personal pronoun, so that the verb has its object expressed twice.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
The third personal pronoun—he, she, it—in all its cases is especially uncertain in its references.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
That is my excuse for the free use of the personal pronoun, not to make prominent the person, but to emphasize the reality.
Silver Chimes in Syria|W. S. Nelson
The disjunctive forms of the pronoun are also sometimes preserved before verbs and adjectives.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft