Editing Relative clause (section)

====Pronoun retention type====
In this type, the position relativized is indicated by means of a [[personal pronoun]] in the same syntactic position as would ordinarily be occupied by a noun phrase of that type in the main clause—known as a ''[[resumptive pronoun]]''. It is equivalent to saying "The woman who I saw <u>her</u> yesterday went home". Pronoun retention is very frequently used for relativization of inaccessible positions on the accessibility hierarchy. In [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Classical Arabic]], for example, resumptive pronouns are required when the embedded role is other than the subject or direct object, and optional in the case of the direct object. Resumptive pronouns are common in non-verb-final [[languages of Africa]] and Asia, and also used by the Celtic languages of northwest Europe and [[Romanian language|Romanian]] ("Omul pe care <u>l</u>-am văzut ieri a mers acasă"/"The man who I saw <u>him</u> yesterday went home"). They also occur in deeply embedded positions in English, as in "That's the girl that I don't know what <u>she</u> did",<ref name="mckee">{{citation|title=Resumptive Pronouns in English Relative Clauses|first1=Cecile|last1=McKee|first2=Dana|last2=McDaniel|journal=Language Acquisition|volume=9|number=2|year=2001|pages=113–156|doi=10.1207/s15327817la0902_01|s2cid=143402998}}.</ref> although this is sometimes considered non-standard.

Only a very small number of languages, of which the best known is [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]], have pronoun retention as their sole grammatical type of relative clause.