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Monday, May 5, 2008
The Perils of Planning
I just can’t get this construction to work for me:
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It seems perfectly natural to me. It is really cool now that you point it out though, that more is doing double duty in "an estimated 55 or more delegates" and "more delegates than Obama." A double more would force me to pause to parse it.
Evidence against the validity of parse trees! I called it! Score one for LingTroll! :)
Hmmm, maybe this is a syntactic geminate?
Is that something that has been documented before or are you proposing something new?
hehe, I made up ... uh ... coined the term "syntactic geminate". Since most syntactic theories have mechanisms to deal with raising and control, I assume there are mechanisms to model this sort of thing too.
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