A failure of parallelism, sort of

In this headline from the 21st: The crucial part is the NP (PA) child- and gang-rapes a reduced variant of the coordination child rapes and gang rapes — with rapes “factored out” of the full coordination, leaving the two-conjunct constituent child and gang. What gives this reduced coordination the whiff of non-parallelism is the difference in the way … Continue reading A failure of parallelism, sort of