Dummy pronoun
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dummy-pronoun-289-4639997
title:
Dummy pronoun
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A dummy pronoun, also known as an expletive pronoun, is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit meaning of its referent. As such, it is an example of exophora. Dummy pronouns are used in many Germanic languages, including German and English. Pronoun-dropping languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Turkish do not require dummy pronouns. A dummy pronoun is used when a particular verb argument is nonexistent but when a referenc
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Pronoun having no referent, only used to fulfill grammatical rules; e.g. "it" as in "it rains"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_pronoun
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2024-02-27T00:16:57Z
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