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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 |
| This guy stole this woman's car that he was on a date with. | Extraposition out of a Possessor (Left-Branch) | DK |
| I'm also really bad at keeping secrets and bad at not being paid lots of attention to. | Pseudo-passive | Anon. |
| I'm sending you a sentence i'm trying to figure out why is hard. | Wh-Island -- Subject across Adjunct | EB |
| The options that everyone are considering ... | Agreement Attraction | ST |
| They look but they tell themselves they aren't. | Bad Ellipsis Antecedence | Don DeLillo, Underworld, p. 59 |
| There are more than one artists with this band name. | Notional and Grammatical number mismatch, Comparative Trouble | last.fm bio for band `Cave' |
| "It remains to be seen whether people will shell out upwards of $500 for a device they're not sure they need, and aren't certain how they'll use." | Wh-Island violation: Bonus: ATB | Huffington Post 1/29/10, on iPad (Thanks to CP) |
| "Wait a minute - I'm going to look for someone that I don't know who they are." | Wh-Island violation with resumption | Doctor Who - End of Time Spoof on Youtube |
| Against Iran, I can understand why China wouldn't want sanctions. | Wh-Island violation, bonus: topicalization | Commentator on Diane Rehm Show 02/10/10, 10:27AM |
| Can I be cut a slice [of bread]? | Passivization of a Benefactor - perhaps weirder because of modal | PA |
| Comes in a small un-belch-inducing size bottle. | Illicit prefixation | Energy Drink Commercial |
| [...Looking at an unidentifiable bit of roadkill...] I don't even know what that's a dead. | Wh-Extraction of NP, stranding D and Adj | TH |
| We don't think babies probably do that. | Neg-Raising blocked by quantificational adverb | LP |
| But the angry animal has even learned to spot when the front door is open – and runs into the house. | telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7598209/Pheasant-attacks-man.html# | |
| It's one of those new media sources that the people who write for are mostly freelance. | RC-Island + Subject Island Violation | DK |
| The cell that I told you that modifies the choice... | That-trace | NACS colloquium 04/30 |
| It's a lab where there are a lot of people who I respect that work | RC-Island()?) | D Klein |
| It really culminated the four years I spent here | Transitive use of `culminate' | http://www.annarbor.com/news/president-barack-obamas-commencement-address-a-great-memory-for-u-m-graduates/ |
| i figured i'd talk about the one thing that i know more ____ than you folks do so that I don't look stupid. | Preposition Drop inside RC | R. Stanley Williams, on the Memristor. Video available on Youtube |
| That's the paintbrush that they painted the house on TV, remember? | Preposition Drop inside RC | MH |
| There are words that I'm a native speaker and I've never seen before. | CSC violation | DK |
| Whoever wants to meet whoever wherever would be great | EB | |
| To Gray will now almost certainly go the mayor’s office; the general election is a mere formality here. | Formal Writing Fail: Overgeneralization of Locative Inversion(?) | http://www.tbd.com/articles/2010/09/d-c-primary-election-2010-d-c-mayor-9556.html |
| I don't stalk every girl that he friends on facebook and decide that I'm prettier than her. | (Pseudo)-binding without c-command | CR |
| There is nothing that is close enough to each other to walk to. | Unlicensed reciprocal | SL |
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A: I'm sorry, Jenna. You have failed the test of intelligence. B: Oh really? Well so are you! |
Unlicensed ellipsis | 30 Rock, Season 5, Episode 4 |
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What band do you like every single song they have put out? |
Wh-movement out of island with resumption | reddit.com, 02/10/11 |
| We talked about the syntax box and what are the nature of the rules...what the nature of the rules is." | Post-verbal Agreement Attraction | TB, Syntax I lecture |
| What are you going to call Aunt Jill and say? | CSC Violation, though reanalyzable as 'purposive' infinitival? | LM |
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...that I'd like you to ask me to rate. Intended:... that I'd like to ask you to rate. |
Phrasal/Argument Swap. Bonus: Swap results in overt-realization of message-level empty category (PRO). | DK |
| ...take 'em to the back of my truck to rot them. | Transitive use of 'rot', similar to emergence of 'to disappear s.o.' | Hodgy Beats, on "Ooh" from PLay Cloths Holiday Mixtape 2011 |
| This is something that we already have evidence that happens. | Extraction from RC-Island | SL |
| Another computational problem is what the distribution of sounds are, and figuring that out. | Agreement attraction | JL |
| I'm less likely to go into a place that i don't know what's gonna hapen to me when I go in. | Wh-Island violation and Adjunct | MM |
| On a daily basis in someone's life, I'm going to make a difference. | Fronting of a non-constituent | Bus Ad for NJ Blue Cross Blue Shield |
| I've never been in the zone like that before, probably never will again. | Ellipsis without antecedent identity | Chief Miles O'Brien, Star Trek: Deep Space 9 s03e21 |
| Is there a language like Ottawa that you know someone who might speak? | RC-Island violation | SM 01/31/13 |
| "In some cases, the breast-baring baristas wouldn't sell coffee at all, and only be paid for showing skin, according to the Associated Press." | Bad Coordination, exacerbated by contraction | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/bikini-baristas-strip-shows_n_2733351.html |
| "They're here looking at the equipment and getting explained how things work. | Get-passive with IO subject | SL |
| "This is the step that Stowe is most interested in her paper." | Drop of stranded preposition (related to identity with P in following phrase?) | EL |
| "I harbor a bunch of presuppositions that I have no idea why." | Wh-Island violation (Relativization), ellipsis of Island IP | AW |
| "I'm being have...ing" (intended: "I'm behaving.") | Decomposition of one lexical item into two, misattachment of suffix | DK |
| "I don't know anyone with a PhD from Tufts. But to be fair, there are a lot of places that I don't know a person who's got a phd from." | RC-Island, Negative Island violation | |
| "Just sold something on ebay... that the shipping will cost me more than I am getting paid" | Vacuous Relativization, Intended Gap Site inside a Subject Island | Facebook Wall Post |
| "Those burgers take really quick to eat." | Duration NP replaced by Adverb | AS |
| "He's an Ohio, who lives in engineer." (intended "He's an engineer who lives in Ohio.") | NP Transposition -- BONUS:Proper and Common noun swap! | DK |
| "They wanted to know which event he was the first man who was killed during." (discussing a trivia question on Crispus Attucks. Answer: Boston Massacre) | Island Violation (RC/Adjunct) | DK |
| "I never said this clace was plassy." (Intended: "I never said this place was classy.") | Spoonerism, BONUS: transposition does not result in lexical items, DOUBLE BONUS: [pl] onset most likely primed by talk of "plastic cups" in previous sentence. | DK |
| "Since each other are the only people editing the entry we care about, let's make a pact to not check it until one of us hears something." | Unlicensed Reciprocal in Subject position | EB, by email |
| Those are the decisions that coaches are afraid that they will be punished if they make. | Adjunct Island Violation | Colin McEnroe, 1/20/15 |
| There were no reading of social cues. | Agreement attraction error. BONUS: post-verbal attractor, DOUBLE BONUS: attractor inside DE-QP | AS |
| Nobody the fuck trained us for this. | Misplaced emphatic modifier (overgenerlization from wh paradigm?: Who the fuck trained us for this?) | EB (submitted by EB and DK2 independently) |
| What would you hope to have a model that did? | Wh-movement from an RC | DK |
| There are no psychologists who know what imperfectivity are | Agrement attraction from a more distant head AND Wh-Island violation | DK |
| Making slides take time. | Agrement attraction. | RE |
| I need three verbs that people would have intuitions about how you form their past tense. | Relativization out of Wh-Island, genitive resumptive. | DK |