Re: Soaloa evolves, and a small challenge

David J. Peterson wrote:
>
> "It's the kind of game that you just want to go home, sit down
> and play right away."
>
> So the object of "play" is "game".  The object of "go" is "home",
> though, and "sit down" doesn't have an object.  Yet these are
> all conjoined VP's.  By all accounts, this sentence *should* be
> ungrammatical, but people say things like this all the time in
> English.  This type of sentence, I figure, would be problematic
> for any language.

I think this works in English because "to go home, sit down,
and play" is analysed as a single action, sort of a single verb
phrase.

--Ph. D.