[quote=@scribz] 1. I agree 100% 2. I disagree with some things you said, I don't think they're necessarily meant to be useful, they're just naturally occurring compensations for sentency fuck ups. [/quote] Not fuckups, just turning DPs (constituents with noun phrases in them) from embedded clauses into [+wh] feature phrases (which, who, etc) and moving them to successively higher CP spec positions to form questions. The issue that arises is that english speakers hate having gaps left without pronouns, especially where agentive/experiential pronouns go. In romance languages they modify verbs to code for tense and specify who is performing the action, so pronouns are superfluous. Not so much in English. So the problem is the English fixation on pronoun placement. Tho since we don't modify our verbs the same way it's understandable.