English verbs selecting Bare forms

[Martin Jansche]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Carl Pollard wrote:

> Martin, is this your way of hypothesizing that TRY subcategorizes
> for a base-form complement?

Yes, I've heard requests of the form "Try talk some sense into them."
quite a lot, and also (perhaps less frequently) "I'll try do a
version" (BNC).

> 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?

Right, but the same seems to hold without "and" present.

- martin