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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
In addition to KarlG’s answer, there’s a paper that argues that speakers have actually reanalyzed the reduced have as “of” acting as a complementizer, i.e. conversically. . working similarly to the ‘to’ in English infinitives, giving the bracketing
I would (of worked).
On the other hand that the argument is that have cannot furtherreduce
fromreduce
fromto
,and
the construct under discussion in general is not necessarily justified. Hence, according to the paper’s argument,isnot actually
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