English Explanatory Dictionary

parasitic gap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A construction wherein the dropping of an argument is dependent on a covarying argument having been fronted in a local context, as in "Which book did she review without reading?".

Word forms

parasitic gap parasitic gaps
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