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parasitic gap
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parasitic
gap
(
plural
parasitic gaps
)
English
Wikipedia
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parasitic gap
Wikipedia
(
grammar
)
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?".