| ▲ | cwmoore 6 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
"What did you try but spit out?" | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | foldr 6 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
That’s a regular case of across-the-board extraction from a coordination (where ‘try’ has a nominal direct object rather than a clausal complement): What did you try ___ but spit ___ out? The examples in the linked article involve extraction from just one coordinand, which is impossible in “real” coordinate structures. | |||||||||||||||||
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