Resumptive pronouns (is that the right term?) in relative clauses

[pne]

An interesting construction I came across just now here: the pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who's said some things that a lot of people don't want a President who believes.

That's the sort of thing that makes me wonder whether English wouldn't be "better" if it had mandatory, or at least optional, resumptive pronouns.

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

That is a very awkwardly constructed sentence.

It is, and ungrammatical in my 'lect.

I had to think about it and mentally insert the blank (as "who's said some things that a lot of people don't want a President who believes ____" so I'd now what element of the clause was raised as the "that" of the relative pronoun) before I could parse it.

It comes off that the writer is trying to sound very important, but that sentence shows that he tried too hard.

He used a similar construction elsewhere, and my guess was that this is part of his 'lect, rather than a deliberate choice in order to sound important.

You could be right, of course.

[pne.livejournal.com]

It is, and ungrammatical in my 'lect.

More or less as, say, "That's the boy who I like to play with Jim and".

[hidden-kitten.livejournal.com]

That is an ugly little sentence you made, there. D: It's almost like a misplaced modifier, but without the lols.

[hidden-kitten.livejournal.com]

Ungrammatical, yes. Very. Like a sentence fragment. I don't believe I've seen many sentences with a verb at the end. Is it common in other languages?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

1. I have.
2. It is.

[hidden-kitten.livejournal.com]

Clever clever ;)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Compare the grammatical (at least for me) "That's not a book I'd want to read ___", which has the verb at the end, too.