Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2021
Volume
3
Issue
3
Abstract
The try get construction, used by some speakers of Hawai‘i English, consists of the bare form of the verb try immediately followed by the bare form of another verb, as in We’ll try get some coffee tomorrow. In this paper, I first describe the usage of this construction, showing that it behaves essentially identically to the widespread go get construction described most notably by Zwicky (1969) and Pullum (1990). I then analyze the syntax of the try get construction adopting Bjorkman’s (2016) proposal for the go get construction.
Recommended Citation
Tanaka, Kento. 2021. Try come look at this construction! Yale Working Papers in Grammatical Diversity 3 (3), 1-11.