Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Resumptivity: an overview -- 2. Syntactic derivation: two types of A'-dependencies -- 3. Reconstruction and internal structures of resumptive pronouns -- 4. Specificity effects -- 5. Concluding remarks -- 6. Appendix: General distribution of the resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese -- References -- Subject index