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Phil,

I would suggest going to Jespersen’s A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. He treats constructions like this at some length, but I don’t know offhand which volume it’s in. He does treat them, as Bruce does, as bare infinitives, not as reductions of participles. Huddleston and Pullum have a similar treatment on p. 1244.

Herb

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It might help if you saw the phrase in (1) as a bare infinitive. Sometimes we let the semantics of an item drive the terminology of the syntax and morphology. I can't help with your literature search.

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Anyone have a good resource that would provide both a n! ame and a description of the extent of distribution of what I am loosely calling a 'reduced participial phrase' as seen in (1) below as contrasted with a more customary participial phrase in (2).

             1)   See spot run.
              2) See spot running.

Phil Bralich

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