Re: Resumptive pronoun?

> Date:         Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:42:02 -0400
> From: D Tse <exponent@...>
>
> If I have a sentence, literally "The shirt, the one that you wear, it is
> green", or "The island, the place at which there is a tree, is over there",
> are "the one that" and "the place that" resumptive pronouns or not?
Not quite. If anything, it's only 'the one' and 'the place' that need
a special term, 'that' and 'at which' are just complementizers. But I
don't know if resumptive is the right term for something so close to
its antecedent, or if pronoun is the right term for 'the one' and 'the
place'.

However, the first example does have a bona fide resumptive pronoun,
'it'. Perhaps that's easier to see if you simplify it a bit: "The
shirt that you're wearing, it's green."

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)