Timeline for Problem in adjective clauses’ grammar
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 15, 2014 at 8:03 | comment | added | Hanna | @Shoe: Thanks for this sentence "Languages that have resumptive pronouns include Greek and Persian." I think that's the reason I have this problem:) | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 20:20 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Yeah, I think I see what you mean. Perhaps it's because we recognise whenever it rains as an "adverbial-cum-adjectival" element that would sit more comfortably at the end of the utterance. But we know that we could substitute syntactically similar alternatives such as seldom, often, loudly, many of which are equally at home before or after the "primary" verb. And there's something kinda satisfying about being able to introduce a "secondary" verb where you might think the two different "subjects" could be confusing, but in fact they're not. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 20:00 | comment | added | Shoe | Odlin in Language Transfer: Cross-linguistic influence on language learning (p102) notes: Resumptive pronuons do occur in relative clauses in some nonstandard varieties of English. My inner grammarian does not reject your example either, although omitting the resumptive pronoun results in a sentence that I find oddly appealing: This is the girl that whenever it rains cries. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 19:43 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I suppose some native speakers won't like it much, but This is the girl that whenever it rains she cries just about passes my "inner grammarian" (well, it's not ridiculously wrong, at least). I'd rather have seen this question on ELL in the first place, and to my mind you calling attention to the fact that "resumptive pronouns" occur more naturally in other languages simply reinforces that idea. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 18:44 | history | answered | Shoe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |