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1986 Ix•• ,11 ,eIlIeUe. 86; either split entecedent of reflexive or split controller) A sequel to mu 1965 compilation oflinouistic examples scribbled in mu address book and various plmr.l of plIpllr; t offer no guarantee thlrt, if a3kt:d, I could 3a."••••hlrt the :rigniflcance of an." ·It distorted the •••••rld oubide itself" (John Varley, Blul! CIllmpl9nl!, 48) pertlculer exemple ••••as. - - James D. McCe••••ley ,recucllc YP-deletioD . An.,hon "Alot ofthis material can be presented In a fairly Informal and accessible fashion, and I often do· "We remind me a lot ofthe French Army on the eve ofthe first ••••orld ....ar· (WW, Dee 28 65; Ir" (Noam Chomsky, Till! 9'lnt'rltil"1l IJRtt'rpr;s" p. 41) refers to the compeny that WW 'WOrksfor) "Your seat belt should be fastened 01this time. To do so, ..: (MIMY Airlines, 4 Dee 86) •... competill9 cleimants todau often understand veru well ••••hat each other 15dolno..: (Dell Humes Anaphoric islaDd. and John Fought, .4mu;cln Structur8lism, p.24) ·Mr. Condon, hov1no 'WOrkedfor many years as a fiI m publicity man before becoml no a .!!!!n!ll1 ('TM Manchurian Candidato', 'An Infinity of M1rrors', emong others) ...( NYTimes July85) .JW:. mother 15the onlu person llho knollS the truth about little Rachel ... the onlu person alive· (edvertl$f;ment for TVmovie 1965; beckllards anophoro first mention) TM BIll Sffti, ·Arthur, you're our editorial IIrlter. Why haven't you ~ritten ~ for thh Issue?· (Miss Peach, ·~eyes are llhot oman first notices about a 'WOman.So declared Havelock Ellis: (L. M. Boyd, SF 3 Apr 86) Chronicle, 11 May 65; becl:'W8rdsanaphora, Indefinite antecedent) "When!l!!. stood on the battlefield near Gettysburg and made his moat memorable speech, evory ·'f Bud calls for another dete ~Ith Tommie, tell him she's unavaileblo - - but I em g. (Apt. 3G, IIord hod been carefullu crafted bu Abraham Lincoln· (Rouko, 12 June 66) 24AUO 86) •...011of its small vanilla crop ••••ent to france. All, that is, except the fell beans brought back by tourists and the occasional shipment sent from his perents' home on the 151andto a man in los "This coupon h non-transferable nor replaceable" (mailing from field Museum, AUO.86) Moeles named Marc JoOO" (NYT Mogozine, 28 Sept 86) '1heir many friends ere hoplno that U.S. AR~als Jud~ Joel Flaum and his ••••Ife Thee ... can petch it ·It ••••os that more than anythi ng else that made Artur Rodzloakl 's name a household ~" (WfMT, up". (Kup'sColumn, t70et 66) 10 Sept. 66) "The Trial of lucullus- - Bertolt 8recht ... His victims judge a Roman ~neral.· lP NeIlS, Aut 86 "The stress of hosting her o••••n late night talk sho'Wis effectil'l9 Joen Rivers" (SNL, Nov 8 86) "Tisch ",ill be tM third head of the Postal Service in ea many (. three) years· (WfMT, 6 Aug 86) "If you were your aunt, and you knell the sort of chop you were, 'WOuldyou let a fello", you k08ll to ·If \IOUare a chop' suey or cho'" mel n fan, you can get them ~lth vegetables, ...• (Pot Bruno, Sun• be your best pel tutor your son?" (Wodehouse, ·Jeeves and the Impending doom", 13) Times, 13 Dec 86) "Only the previous summer, for instance, it hovino been drwn to his attention that the lotterl hod ., don't ~ont to upset her any more then she 01reedy Is" (Toles from the Dorkslde) reported hi m for smokil'l9, he hod marooned a cabi net Ministeri on on island I n the lake ...• 1.IIDd. (Wodehouse, "The love that purifies·, 166) "I got to do things In that film thet, if you did g on the stroet theU'd send \IOUwey" (lee Mervin, quoted in PlrtJd" Apr 1786) A: Did lie heno on Innocent man? B: I hope not. I pray to Godnot. ("Execution·, T••••i1ight Zone, 1 Apr 60) ·For examplo, you got the definition of variable ea case- marked trace as a theorem, ",hlch I don't see boll to get g from the simpler formulation· (Noom Chomsky, TIlIl IllnlJr8ti~'1l IlntlJrpnSIl, "That gun Is Sam's gun. He shot b1.m\oIIthhl! OlIn gun" (Suspense, "CIrcumstantial terror·) p.90) ·Ironically, It is easier to get out otahall! than into u" (NYTsupplement, 28 Sept 86) We have more moneYi than ",aknw ",hat2 to do g2 with g 1. "She ",ea the first ",oman to \olina governorship ••••ho did not succeed her husband· (Tribune Nov 5) ~htch politicians 1 did Smith ask IIhlch relatlves2 of g 1 the FBI lias Investl(latl no fJ 2? Coordinate .tructure constraint ·Burkel allegedly slandered Melai n in order to further the 10th ",ard aldermanl's political goals· "The ABAdefines 'American' very loosely -- 'any place •••••think It •••••uld I1efun to travel to if and (WFMT, Nov. 86) toke the ",hole thing off our taxes'" (Roger Simon, OCt 20 86) "' believe In a lot of analusls early In the game, IIhlch I then consciously abandon if and run IIlld· reflexives (Ellen Tooffe Z••••l1ich, quoted In NYTimes Magazine, July 14,85) ·,t ",ill turn out later ... that this solution has much to recommend l18elf" (van Rlemsdijl: & ·It's probably ooen there all along and I just haven't noticed it" (both conjuncts in scope of WilIlems, IntrQl/uction to tll, tltllorv gf 9r8mmlr, p. 125) pro1J81J1V) "Tha receptionist sold to sit over here and someone IIould call me· (infinitive conjoined with tlllt ·He claims that Previn ",as Glullnl's first choice to succeed himself· (NVT Magazine Mau 486) clouse) •...a fur coot is for looking at B and going 'Wwl'·. (Wl1llam Safire, NYT,86) •... hh ~Ife Fatl ma, ••••ho concocted a fantastic scheme to get themselves out of debt· (WfMT, feb 2 ·Better keep a civil toW.!!! i n \/Our heed or ve11 heve to cut i!out· (SNL skit: Rand",Quaid es Surflel const rei nb sadistic naval captain) Order of YP elements •...if \/Ougo up to someone much smeller then \/Ouin a bar and give him tip-, \/Oumust acept the "Come on, hone"" let's stop and pick up the kids a fun meal· (Mother Gooseand Grimm, Apr 14 risk that i!might be split· (Mike Ro",koon Bill", Mertin, Me", 5 86) 86) "You used to speek elenguege I couldn't understend B·, Anthon", said .• No-".I cen~: (NYT Megezine, ·Then I'm outl here - - if I can get the job done before I pess out, or the ,appie couple shows 1 June 86, p 42) beck UI( (Dick Trac"" 23 Ha", 86; original boldfece) ·There were no .•••omen included in the faculty, and it .•••a8 to be some time before there vere B·. ·I'd have to give it beck up" (July 86) D.Tannen, 25 June 85. ·He won't giee us it back" (Fred Bassett, 14 Aug 86) "Stocks fall 86 - - biggest ever· (Sun- Timese headline, 12 Sept 86; f811N deleted under identity "Him we give a bulk rate" (·Newton I·, Th"ilipltl1'onff 86) •••ith f811 r) Comp-trece "Who .."es it /if persuaded thet Fari no gu", to give hi meelf up7· (Nightfall: The Willoughby ·'f you don·t indulge_lJ!!urself, nobody wi11i" (i = indulge you; Garfield, 10 Nov. 86) Obsession·) cf: ??It wes Smith persuaded ... 711 •••ant to meet the person •••ho it 'w'8Spersuaded ... Soldier: ·Lt. flap calls you ·man"· lieutenant: ·Lt. flep is an officer. 'Han' from him implies no disrespect! Yours doe, .0',. Control (.0' = 'imply some disrespect'; Beetle Beiley, 9 Jen 86) "Toevoid exceeding the limits, two aging Poseidon submerines .•••iIl be scrapped· (WFMT 27 May) ·'fthey're satisfied with the errellf,lements for his protection, then so em I. Andso should you·. ·,t costs YOUover $1,000,000 a vear to clean up B· (CTA message about gnffltl) (T"'i1ight Zone) "The •••ord hasn't been used, but it must· (Tribune,S Nov 86) "This happens especielly frequently when B trying to reach numbers in New York· (Tribune) ·,t might be objected, es I think Jerry Ketz hes B, ..." (J. H1gginbothem, 25 July 86) Adverbs "You11alwaus be certain to pour your guests a vine you feel confident i testes just es you me it". (Dee Coutelle, Sun- Times, Aug 86) . "Internationally, agein, ..." (WFMT news, 13 Ma", 86) Plnsmc 91P "The font cen then easily be chenged· (MacUser, JulU 86, p 17) It's the onl y la•••that ignorance of B excuses violations of B. "Thet •••es the call' shoul,d have never ans'w'ered· (Suspense, 5 March 49) Agreement "Up to this point the exemples end terminology have been non-controversial·. (me for reviw) Smith no•••here cites Bro•••n's monograph. 7?Smith nowhere feels safe. (OK only •.••hen it conveus 'never'?) "The audience ves laughing themselves sick" (Good Morning America movie revie •••) ·Ifthere·s ever e fire in our home, ..." (Drabble, Oct. 1286) ·None of the deputies ~ ever brought to trial· (Stephen King, It; 503) ., can·t believe that he'd now be Interested in enyone else" (Rex Morgan H.D., 12 Oct 86) "You're the kind of person .•••ho driv81 wurself to the limit·. Conjoining RNR I broke two legs last yeer. (uttered by Mefie enforcer) "[It 'w'8SJsomething the edministrators who selected and the teachers who usedJ! .•••ere incepeble of I broke a leg twiee lest year. (uttered by eccident-prone person) foing or un'w'tlli ng to do· (RNR of il; R. Damerell, ldUCBtion '$ $fI'/(}tinp pun, 135) 'dontit, Is the title /I TurN! or Un Turcq in 1181i87 ·But he d1dn't knoc" me out. Just do'tt'n·, (quote in Royko column, 3 Jan 86) ?Is the title /I or Un Turcb in II81i87 (RNR sensitive to constituent structure of quoted 'oreign materiel 7) [The blestoff .•••es aborted .•••hen) ·computers detected e malfunction that turned out to be a false alerm· (WFHT, 6 Jan 86) •...an investigation of security procedures et Chicago's O'Hare and Ne'tt'York's Kennedy aIrports· :WFHT news, 13 Mey 86) JR: ·Have IJOU gohnuthing for it?· ( •• for next issue of work1 ng pepers) JMcC: "I probably ••..m·.