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Resumptive

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Re`sump´tive
a.1.Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.
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The 18 contributions are organized into sections on clitics, determiners and pronouns; verbs, auxiliaries and inflection; movement and resumptive pronouns; syntax/discourse interface; and L2 acquisition.
The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages by Reference & Research Book News
Perhaps, we may take these to be instances of dislocation in which, for purposes of emphasis an extracted NP leaves behind a resumptive pronoun residue (Emonds 1976: 32).
The noun phrase structure in Nigerian English by Lamidi, Mufutau T. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Characteristic of Meredith's language is the strongly dissonant resumptive conjunction 'that' at the beginning of line two, upsetting any expectations of lyric melody and establishing a more vernacular idiom.
The Victorian sonnet, from George Meredith to Gerard Manley Hopkins by Regan, Stephen / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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