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STUDIES - Csaba Czeglédi: On the Distribution of Infinitival and Gerundive Complements in English

The following admittedly deviant but authentic anacoluthon with suggest complemented by an infinitival clause is attested by Mair (1990:143). (58) Hilary Torrance suggested that a letter from the parents to be sent to County Hall putting forward the views regarding the cuts of 2 weeks and enrolment week for the 1984/85 session. (Mair's original number (168)) It is particularly interesting because, as he explains, a "lengthy and discontinuous" embedded subject "causes the writer to switch to a construction that is normal with frequently used and semantically related verbs of wishing such as expect or want" (Mair 1990:143). I find it exciting that the theory of implicit contrasts sketched in this article offers a principled explanation even for slips like these. 29