"risen" for "raised"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:36 AM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Perhaps this is just a typo the both the author and editor missed--
> >> or a hypercorrection--or do people really normally use "risen" as the
> >> past participle of "raise"?
> >>
> >> "Campbell has risen far more in campaign contributions than his [two]
> >> opponents combined, with a large chunk coming from builders and
> >> contractors." --
> >> Lauren Sellers, "Three with varied viewpoints want Allen's house
> >> seat," ORLANDO SENTINEL, 2-21-08, pB3.
> >
> > I blame the insidious grammar checker in Microsoft Word. When I run
> > the sentence with "raised" through the checker in MS Word 2003, it
> > suggests replacing "raised" with "risen". So most likely it's a
> > grammatical Cupertino [*].
> >
> > [*] http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/spellchecker/
>
> same with my version of MS Word.  interestingly, the original *has* a
> reading, parallel to
>   Cambpell has risen far more in net worth than ...
> (with "far more in ..." serving as an extent adverbial) but this
> wasn't the reading intended above (where "far more in ..." is a direct
> object).  so why should the grammar checker go after "raised"?
[snip]

James Lyle of the Microsoft Natural Language Group addresses this
point in the second update to my LL post.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005404.html


--Ben Zimmer

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