English verbs selecting Bare forms

[Martin Jansche]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Glenn Taylor wrote:

> Not that this in any way serves as a contraction to your examples in general,
> but these two don't fit (with my bracketing added), as what follows
> 'try/tried' is an NP:

Right, thanks.  Throw these two examples out ("kidnap suspects", and
"Find People Fast").

> What is NAN, by the way?

The North American News corpus collection distributed by the
Linguistic Data Consortium (there was a description in an earlier
message in this thread).

- martin