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"What did you try but spit out?"
by 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?