A dummy pronoun, also known as an expletive pronoun, is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit...

4] are pronouns but not pro-forms. In [3], the interrogative pronoun who does not stand in for anything. Similarly, in [4], it is a dummy pronoun, one that...

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third...

it crowd. A dummy pronoun is one that appears only for syntactic reasons and has no semantic value. One use of it is as a dummy pronoun (see also there)...

Pronouns are not the only deictic words though. For example now is deictic, but it's not a pronoun. Also, dummy pronouns and interrogative pronouns are...

up dummy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dummy may refer to: Mannequin, a model of the human body Dummy (ventriloquism) Crash test dummy Dummy (nickname)...

with the gender of the first person pronoun which does not appear explicitly here. A dummy pronoun is a type of pronoun used when a particular verb argument...

they often lack semantic arguments. In the sentence It rains, the pronoun it is a dummy subject; it is merely a syntactic placeholder—it has no concrete...

llueve means "It rains". In English, French and German, they require a dummy pronoun and therefore formally have a valency of 1. However, as verbs in Spanish...

show pronouns but not pro-forms. In [3], the interrogative pronoun who does not stand in for anything. Similarly, in [4], it is a dummy pronoun, one that...

relates to the fact that a dropped pronoun has referential properties, and so is crucially not a null dummy pronoun. Pro-drop is a problem when translating...

A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence. In the English language specifically...

third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as...

genitive pronouns are distinct for dependent my and independent mine, but for he, there is syncretism: the dependent and independent pronouns share the...

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. An example is the word which in the sentence "This is the house which Jack built." Here the...

In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the...

actually being represented by it. In this case, it is an expletive and a dummy pronoun. In imperative clauses, most languages elide the subject, even in languages...

Look up expletive (linguistics) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dummy pronoun Expletive attributive Expletive deleted Expletive infixation Morphology...

the syntactic requirement for an explicit subject a pleonastic (or dummy pronoun) is used; only the first sentence in the following pair is acceptable...

attaching the reflexive pronoun to intransitive verbs. The grammatical subject is either omitted (in pro-drop languages) or is a dummy pronoun (otherwise). Thus...

related to the frequent use of subject pronouns, in the Cibao region ello 'it/there' may be used as a dummy pronoun with "impersonal and meteorological verbs...

relative clause has no "warning" that they are in a relative clause). Dummy pronoun "Subordinate Clauses". The Internet Grammar of English. University College...

object of a transitive verb. Additionally, the prefix can be used as a dummy pronoun to make transitive verbs intransitive; these verbal forms are often...

German pronouns are German words that function as pronouns. As with pronouns in other languages, they are frequently employed as the subject or object...

does not. The verb fue has no dummy subject, and the pronoun el que is not a cleaver but a nominalising relative pronoun meaning "the [male] one that"...

Control Coreference Differential Object Marking Discontinuity Do-support Dummy pronouns Ellipsis Ergative verb Exceptional case-marking Existential clauses...

must fill in the syntactic gap by inserting a dummy pronoun. "*Rains" is not a correct sentence; a dummy "it" must be added: "It rains"; in French "Il...

yon and yonder, along with this one or that one as substitutes for the pronoun use of this or that. Many languages, such as English and Standard Chinese...

singular: Plesalo se. There was dancing. (Literally) "It was danced." No dummy pronoun can be used. There appears to be no restriction like in Turkish, e.g...

A distributive pronoun considers members of a group separately, rather than collectively. They include either, neither and others. "to each his own" —...