If I couldn't make it as an architect, I was gonna fall back on show business.
Under the pre-emption hypothesis, an over-general form (e.g., * I'm gonna fall this on her) is probabilistically blocked by only nearly synonymous forms (e.g., I'm gonna make this fall on her).
Then I'm gonna fall off a stage and break my neck.
man: hi me: yeah right like i'm gonna fall for that again.
The event is called the Stupor Bowl, it happens the Saturday before the Super Bowl, and the most accurate summary of it probably came from Brian Lorei, a 23-year-old bike messenger from Chicago, when he announced shortly before the race, "Guys, I'm gonna fall down a lot". .
The entrenchment hypothesis (Braine & Brooks, 1995) states that repeated presentation of a verb leads to an ever-increasing probabilistic inference that non-attested uses (e.g., * I'm gonna fall this on her) are not permitted.
"Is she gonna fall?" he said, watching live footage of Clinton approaching the stage.
He also wrote the Tom Jones hit, I'm Never Gonna Fall In Love Again.
However, the generalization that any verb that has appeared in the intransitive construction may appear in the transitive construction is too broad, yielding attested overgeneralization errors such as * He giggled me, *She came it over there, and * I'm just gonna fall this on her (Bowerman, 1988).
For example, a recent dense-database study of the transitive causative construction (Theakston, Maslen, Lieven, & Tomasello, 2012) failed to find a single overgeneralization error of the type observed in Bowerman's (1988) diary study (* He giggled me, *She came it over there and * I'm just gonna fall this on her).
Is Bob Dylan's hard rain gonna fall?
