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The Elikorpus
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Inspired by Elika Bergelson('s frequent speech errors)
| Datum | Diagnosis | Source, Context |
|---|---|---|
| There was a cake that there wasn't eaten any of on the table. | Stranded quantifier in base position | EB |
| Is that the task that we're trying to figure out what happens during? | Adjunct Island | EB |
| Pizza won't deliver to that block, so the real estate can't be that nice. | Metonymic middle? | EB |
| I have people on my buddy list who I don't know who are. | Wh-Island (Relativization) -- Also has flavor of a superiority violation but that's hard to tell | EB |
| That was louder than it hurt. | Degree mismatch | EB, [having just slapped someone, the result of which was a loud sound] |
| I'll only step in two inches deep or less puddles. | EB | |
| Does he want that made copies of? | Pseudo-passive | MW |
| That would involve controlling for factors that we don't know whether you controlled for. | Whether-Island | I. Sag, at Islands Mayfest |
| He's the kind of character that you don't care what happens to. | Wh-island | DO |
| That's the function that I want to find a brain area that performs. | RC-Island Violation | EL |
| I wore clothes that I didn't care whether got wet. | Whether-Island, bonus: subject extraction | DK |
| But it's not clear that that's map-on-able on to this. | Phrasal-Verb --> Adjective | EB |
| Ew, I'm getting your bottom-of-shoe bacteria in my ears! | EB | |
| A: Do you know what needs to be done, that I might do tomorrow? B: The fridge defrosted. |
SC elliptical response | EB |
| I think that for the next one that we're both free during we should do that. | Relativization out of Adjunct | EB |
| She's at a lab where a bunch of people who work live in somerville. | Subject-Island | ER |
| The executive is the person for whom the buck stops at their desk. | Bad pied-piping and Resumptive | CNN talking-head discussing Sarah Palin's RNC speech |
| We're trying to find out what parts of the brain do we have a good idea are doing storage and what are doing retrieval. | Bad Subject ATB | EL |
| `...[to] R-M D (with whom after speaking nearly always results in a breakthrough)' | Relativization out of Adjunct | <from an acknowledgments section of a thesis> Pointed out by ED |
| There was nothing that looked like one should go in it. | Resumption of neg-element | EB |
| Can you think of a minimal pair in spanish that distinguish [k] and [g]? | Agreement Error (Plural Percolation) | MA |
| It's not just a question of how fast I speak, which I do. | Bad VP-ellipsis | NM |
| Are you terrible with women and don't know what you're doing? | Coordinate structure Violation with Subject-Aux Inversion | Craigslist Community Posting |
| Two terms I'm going to be using a lot but are important I make clear. | Bad ATB? | EB |
| [I'm] Working on making this baby darker and have more contrast. | Illicit coordination of SC-types | some art blog |
| one of the things we see that often justify use of the timing tier | Agreement Attraction out of Partitive | PA |
| A: What're you cooking? B: Dave dinner. |
CB | |
| "...its real pleasures are idiosyncratic, revealing themselves the more attentively and often you listen." | http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/148380 | |
| Within 4 blocks of here I have 4 friends who are living | RCI-Violation | DK |
| "He doesn’t have Cheney’s cartoonish need for power and greed that’s so off the charts you don’t even understand how Cheney got that way." | Principle C violation? | Maureen Dowd: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/opinion/18dowd.html?_r=1&em |
| ...the sort of light fittings that take a whole lot of men and scaffolding to change the bulbs in. | MD | |
| This is the phenomenon that they didn't know what to do about. | Wh-Island-Violation | BI |
| [...When all the other farms were going under], that's how they survived their farm. | `Survive' as a causative | KG |
| I've always longed for a brother like [name], now I do. | Bad Ellipsis | RG |
| ...and on goes back the big bandaid | Locative Inversion With Phrasal Verb | JM |
| it depends on how who prioritizes job happiness | Wh-Island, Superiority Violation | EB |
| No, I understand why they don't though -- We get cried wolf a lot around here. | Passivization of Intransitive | SH |