Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:45:49 -0500
From:  Gregory Pulliam <gpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHARLIE.CNS.IIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Variation in "try"-complements?

>  This is the same construction I wrote about a few days ago, when I said
>  that I heard "want for/try for/plan for" etc. from a white classmate
>  who had lived as a child in South Carolina. I don't recall whether she
>  used it with an infinitive only or with a gerund as well--only the
>  former sticks in my memory.

I can clearly hear "I mo try for goin to work now" as well as "I mo try for
go to work now." But then, I clearly hear sounds coming from Hale-Bopp,
too.

Greg Pulliam
gpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]charlie.iit.edu
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago