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What does resumptive mean?

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Adjective
  1. That is in the nature of resumption
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He had a terrible passage behind P resumptive at Sandown, where two recent winners had been first and second.
Object resumptive pronouns corresponding to arguments must always occur...irregardless of the presence and position of the full coindexed object nps.
Aspects of stage continue through progressive, pausative, resumptive, cessive, and terminative.
The subject can be moved to the beginning of sentences if it is long and is followed by a resumptive pronoun.
Like many of Lucian's compositions, it has what may be termed a retrospective and resumptive value.
One such piece of evidence comes from Ariel's careful study of the contrastive use of zero anaphors and resumptive pronouns in the relative construction in Modern Hebrew.

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