pronoun trace

[Simon_Beth]

Ditto here too.

beth

beth lee simon
associate professor, linguistics and english
indiana university purdue university
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>>> fortson at FAS.HARVARD.EDU 02/18/02 11:19 AM >>>
> 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