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.
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