pronoun trace

Benjamin Fortson fortson at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Mon Feb 18 16:18:49 UTC 2002


> Thank you, Arnold! I've been equally puzzled by the discussion. Not only do
> I find the original sentence perfectly good, I can't imagine any other way
> to express it that doesn't involve heavy paraphrase.
>
> Alice

Ditto. There is no way (for my grammar) that "him" in the clause under
discussion is a resumptive pronoun of the kind that Beverly originally
gave examples of (as in the Agassi quote, "And it's those that love you
the most that you want the most for them.").

Ben



More information about the Ads-l mailing list