Re: Resumptive pronoun?

> well perhaps you are right.
> but at least the existance of pro-phrases (pro-form for more than one
> term) is one of my conlang's core features.
>
> example sentence:
> "walking through an dark slum-alley by night in san francisco is really
> exciting. but *it* is dangerous too."
> "it" is referring not to a single nound but rather to the whole
> phrase: "walking through an dark slum-alley at night in san francisco"
>
> are there any natural languages which express this concept already ?
>
> regards,
> c.s.
>
I don't know about natural languages, but Gevey (my conlang) has a
concept of "predicate personal pronouns", which can be used to
represent a previously introduced subject+verb (or even an entire
clause) as the subject of a subsequent clause - which may be what you
are thinking about here.

The Gevey reference page on pronouns can be found at:
  http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/pron.html

Rik


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