RESUMPTIVEPRONOUN


Meaning of RESUMPTIVEPRONOUN in English

Ling.

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.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .