Abstract
Yoruba has two types of resumptive pronouns – the agreeing and the non-agreeing resumptive pronouns. Agreeing resumptive pronouns agree in Phi-features (number and person) with their antecedents while the supposedly non-agreeing resumptive pronoun ó does not agree in Phi-features with its antecedent. This paper shows that the so-called non-agreeing resumptive pronoun is required in Yoruba and Edo only because a null operator cannot satisfy the EPP requirement of T. Thus, the inability of T to attract the null operator into its Spec position forces the insertion of an expletive pronoun in the subject position, to satisfy the EPP requirement of T.
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