Presumably you want us to exclude echo readings? (Assuming that 'echo' is
the right name for egs like "What did John read?" "What did WHO read?")
Anyway, my judgment module has failed on those egs - burned out. I'll have
to wait for a spare to be delivered.
Dick
At 20:23 12/10/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>If anyone knows of a standard overview of this data, I'd like to hear
>what it is.
>
>In the meantime, here's a first tranche:
>
>1. What did who read?
>2. Who did what entertain?
>3. What did which man read?
>4. What book did which read?
>5. What did which read?
>6. What books did who read?
>7. Who did what book entertain?
>8. Who did which entertain?
>9. Who did which book entertain?
>
>The general idea is that all of 1-7 should be bad, but in fact various
>people find various examples
>less bad than one would have expected. It's been claimed that
>experiencer-object verbs improve
>matters, and that "which" as a subject does too. I don't wholly agree,
>but find that my judgements
>on this data feel very flimsy..
>
> --And.
Richard (= Dick) Hudson
Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London,
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
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