FW: English verbs selecting Bare forms

[Mike Calcagno]

Hi Bob.

I think both constructions require some polarity environment, but one
which is not limited to negation.  So, you have:

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ente/cinema/reviews/cin_rev08.cfm
But before he dares do so, he realises he must win the approval of her
Dad.
(cf. But before any messages could be exchanged, their parents marched
in.)

If "dares" is like "any" in the above environment, can't we argue that
whatever licenses "anybody" in:

Anyone who would kill anybody would steal from them, too.

Also licenses "dare do" in your example:

(i) Anyone who would dare do that with the police parked out side
    obviously enjoys living very dangerously.

Mike

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From: Robert Levine [mailto:levine at ling.ohio-state.edu]
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Subject: Re: English verbs selecting Bare forms


Larry---right, I see how that works. What about examples like the
following, though?

(i) Anyone who would dare do that with the police parked out side
    obviously enjoys living very dangerously.

This `dare' apparently doesn't require the polarity environment, but
it also selects a bare-stem VP, not an infinitival. Is this just a
variant of infinitival-seeking `dare'? If so, why is

(ii) *Robin dares do that, but not me.

bad? Clearly, this *isn't* quite the same thing as the `try/*tries' case
Carl raised earlier (`If we try and do that, we'll be in trouble/*If
Robin tries and do that, she'll be in trouble')...right?...

Bob