donkey sentence

English

Examples
"Omne homo habens asinum videt illum" ("Every man who owns a donkey sees it") "Every police officer who arrested a murderer insulted him"

Noun

donkey sentence (plural donkey sentences)

1. (grammar) A sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.

Related terms

• donkey anaphora
• donkey pronoun