trace pronoun

[Beverly Flanigan]

P.S. to my earlier long reply on trace pronouns:
I agree with Lynne that this is a processing (or "performance") error, not
a dialectal feature.

At 06:39 PM 2/16/02 +0000, you wrote:
>--On Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:11 pm +0000 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>The following seems unnatural to me because the pronoun HIM has not been
>>deleted:
>>
>>FORT BRAGG -- A national organization that fights for the rights of
>>homosexual service members has come to the defense of a Fort Bragg soldier
>>whose superiors refuse to let him resign. [Associated Press, Durham, NC,
>>HERALD, 2/16/02, B1]
>>
>>Do YOU have an obligatory object deletion in this syntactic environment?
>
>I think I do, but wouldn't be surprised if I was caught saying something
>like this in informal speech (which I'd think would be a processing error,
>not necessarily a dialectal feature).  I'd have to delete it in writing,
>though.
>
>Lynne
>
>Dr M Lynne Murphy
>Lecturer in Linguistics
>Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics
>School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
>University of Sussex
>Brighton BN1 9QH
>UK
>
>phone +44-(0)1273-678844
>fax   +44-(0)1273-671320


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