subject-verb agreement - stridden

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Mar 11 19:47:45 UTC 2004


At 9:21 AM -0800 3/11/04, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>On Mar 11, 2004, at 6:19 AM, James Smith asked:
>
>>So, Arnold, what is the past participle of "to stride"
>>that sounds natural to you or your students?
>
>there is none; this is a paradigm gap for us.  that was why i mentioned
>it.
>
Maybe "He moved in a way I would call striding."  Sort of like "Send
me a mongoose; make it twins."  Or, for that matter, "Either he is
going, or I am".

larry horn



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