English verbs selecting Bare forms

[Louise McNally]

Geoff Pullum has studied these "double bare form" constructions
extensively (e.g. "go (and) get", "try and get", etc.)--he
was working on this in the early 90s, and has commented on
this curious fact.  I'm pretty sure he's published an article
on the subject, though I can't remember where -- perhaps in Linguistics?

Louise


> Funny, isn't it, that uninflected TRY will take an AND+VP[base]
> complement, no matter whether it is base, imperative, or present
> non-3rdsng, but not the inflected forms TRIES, TRIED, TRYING?
>
> Carl