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

J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> Perhaps what makes the sentence jarring to modern ears is that, because we
> expect do-support, there's a temptation to interpret "what" as questioning
> the subject of the sentence
Partly, but, for me at least, it still sounds bizarre even if you add
do-support, "What did you hear him say else".  That else just feels like
it doesn't belong when it's there.

> 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.

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