Non-constituent coordination

[Ivan A. Sag]

For whatever it's worth, my intuition's agree with Shalom's, i.e. that all
these sentences are bad. Can anybody find exx. like these in any corpus?

-Ivan


> Perhaps my judgements have been affected by my own work on these sorts of
> structures, or, alternatively, My Canadian English is being influenced by my
> years in London. Regards.
>                                        Shalom
>
> Ash Asudeh wrote:
>
> > Berthold,
> >
> > I think the sentence below is fine, but the following sentence is out for
> > me:
> >
> > * John gave a record to Peter and Mary a book.
> >
> > Similarly:
> >
> >   John wrote Mary a letter and an email to Peter.
> > * John wrote an email to Peter and Mary a letter.
> >
> > Ash
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Berthold Crysmann wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I wonder whether the following sentence is acceptable for the native
> > > speakers of English amongst you:
> > >
> > > John gave Mary a book and a record to Peter.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for your help,
> > >
> > > Berthold
> > >
> > > --
> > > Berthold Crysmann <crysmann at dfki.de>
> > > Deutsches Forschungszentrum Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH
> > > Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
> > > D-66123 Saarbruecken
> > >
> > >
> > >
>