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The Nigerian language Igala (Benue-Congo) exhibits two types of resumptive pronouns (RPs): (i) in A’-movement dependencies, RPs have reduced features (obligatorily in singular, optionally in plural); (ii) in islands, RPs obligatorily surface with all features. Following Scott (2021) on a similar phenomenon in Swahili, I propose that RPs with reduced features are a result of chain reduction as developed in Landau 2006. I propose that the particularities of movement resumption in Igala (3SG RPs can resume both singular and plural DPs, and if RPs have the plural feature, they also must have person) indicate that (i) different amounts of structure may be deleted in chain reduction, and (ii) number and person form a bundle in pronouns in some languages (Ghomeshi & Massam 2020).
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