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[Amy West]

On 3/31/14, 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> People who worry about relative clauses for a living distinguish between two "strategies" for forming them, one involving gaps ("the woman that I was talking to") and the other involving resumptive pronouns instead ("the woman that I was talking to her").  In some languages, the second strategy is considered standard and may be the only one available in syntactic contexts for which the gap strategy is used in ("standard") English.  Sometimes esp. in colloquial speech we can use either strategies in English, and there's a register difference:
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> "the woman whose brother I work with" (gap strategy, "standard")
> "the woman that I work with her brother" (resumptive pronoun strategy, "nonstandard" but frequent in colloquial English)
I have seen the resumptive quite a bit in MHG verse, where of course the
structure is influenced by the meter and rhyme pattern.

---Amy West

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