Re: USAGE: Garden paths

J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> Furthermore, it's not just any old transitive/intransitive verbs which you don't like in
> reduced relatives--it's specifically those which lack a separate morphological form for
> the past participle.
I'm not so sure, "The horse raced by the jockey past the barn fell down"
is an odd, but still acceptable, sentence to me - once again, there's a
"by" phrase.  *"The poll conducted was inconclusive" is unacceptable,
and it lacks a "by" phrase.  "The horse ridden past the barn fell down"
is almost as unacceptable (at least in as much as I would never produce
it) as with "raced", and that HAS a separate participial form, so it
can't be morphology at work.

> Why build extra rules
> into the grammar, when the effects of those rules are entirely duplicated by limitations
> of the parser?
Okay, I see your point.  I buy that distinction.

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