Re: R: Re: Degrees ofvolitioninactivelanguages(wasRe:Chevraqis: asketch)

Nik Taylor wrote:

>> A classic example of a garden
>> path sentence is "The horse raced past the barn fell down".
>
>IS that grammatical?  I can't think of any situation where "raced past
>the barn" could be used as a relative phrase, at least in my dialect.
The structure is fine in my dialect, even if the wording and topic are
unusual.
Try it with something like: "The car driven by the old man broke down" (as
opposed to the car driven by the young woman).  I find this easier to digest
since the participial form of "drive" differs from the past tense, unlike for
"race" which is "raced" in both forms.

Marcus