There are two main views regarding the existence of resumptive pronouns. Aspects of stage continue through progressive, pausative, resumptive, cessive, and terminative. Unlike other Semitic languages in Sabaean resumptive pronouns are only rarely found. The issues with resumptive pronoun extractability clearly follow from syntactic principles. Crucial to understanding resumptive pronouns is grasping the concept of their counterpart&colon; the trace. The resumptive pronoun never appears in subject function. Resumptive pronouns are therefore generally in complementary distribution with traces. Resumptive pronouns in English behave differently from those in some other languages. In these cases, there is a resumptive pronoun in the relative clause.