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>Subject: Re: Verb aspect and ellipsis
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>Elliptical clauses come from "be-deletion" and if there is no form of the
>verb "to be"
>in the underlying clause, there's nothing to (ahem!) 'ellipt.'

How then do we account for the following sentences?

(1) She raised three children despite working two jobs.
(2) She raised three children despite having worked two jobs.

There do not seem to be corresponding sentences with underlying "to be":

(3) *She raised three children despite she was working two jobs.
(4) *She raised three children despite she was having worked two jobs.

Dick Veit

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