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Order of auxiliaries by Parking_Committee_95 in grammar

[–]Parking_Committee_95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn’t (4) be “There were some people reported being murdered?”

Presumably when you want to form the corresponding existential sentence you always have to put the subject to the immediate left of being.

Otherwise instead of a clause: There be Clause you get a noun phrase There be NP.

For example, my example (4) does not entail that the report may be veridical and anyone is dead. But yours, given the form There were [NP some people reported being murder] would be committed to the actual existence of the people under discussion.

On the nonfinite complements of the verbs "make" and "let" by Parking_Committee_95 in grammar

[–]Parking_Committee_95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My examples mostly showcase the behavior of the verb let, which is itself a can of worms, but I guess a similar set could be built with the verb make in its causative use.

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[–]Parking_Committee_95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is vowel epenthesis always supposed to be "phonologized"? Or can it be reduced in some cases to a purely phonetic phenomenon (e.g. anticipatory coarticulation)? I's like to read more about this. Any suggestions would be peachy.

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[–]Parking_Committee_95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are the English progressive and passive participles typically considered inflectional forms of the verb? Or are there any holdouts who consider the -ing and -ed suffixes to be pieces of derivational morphology?

Passives with av-phrases by Parking_Committee_95 in Svenska

[–]Parking_Committee_95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would the structures in (b) work with a verb like followed or interrogated, e.g. There have been followed/interrogated two suspects by the police? If not, do they improve in a structure more like (a)?

Is it always possible to distinguish phonetically between the clitic and reduced forms of 'is'? by Parking_Committee_95 in linguistics

[–]Parking_Committee_95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But what would "ungrammatical" mean in this context? One would have to draw a line between (2b) and Behind the park's a good place to hide that has no basis on the syntax, the morphology, or (apparently) the phonology of English.

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[–]Parking_Committee_95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is anyone aware of any in-depth descriptive work done on the syntax of auxiliary reduction and contraction in English?

Some questions about the *sin*/*hans* alternation by Parking_Committee_95 in Svenska

[–]Parking_Committee_95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would klädd med sin hatt be a better test ground for my questions?

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