▲ | foldr 6 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
You can actually construct this using regular VP ellipsis (or possibly Right Node Raising?) in English, but it sounds weird and doesn’t convey the same meaning. So I don’t think so. “I’ll try to ___ and see if I can go to the store tomorrow”. [where ___ is the VP ‘go to the store’] Then you have the various syntactic facts mentioned in the article , such as the possibility of wh-extraction. This isn’t possible in an analogous ellipsis construction: “What did you try and eat?” * ”What did you try to and see if you can eat?” There’s also an interesting tense restriction which suggests that there’s no independent elided clause: *”I tried and go/went to the store yesterday.” | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | cwmoore 6 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
"What did you try but spit out?" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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