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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.
by foldr 1y 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 1y ago"What did you try but spit out?"
- foldr 1y agoThat’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.
- cwmoore 1y agoYour examples are not ringing bells for me as a native speaker. The linguistics terms may or may not be confounding, but are too unfamiliar for me to discuss. “Try, and [if successful] [do the thing].”
- foldr 1y agoSorry, I don't understand what you are getting at. What is the significance of the quoted sentence?