The thing I find interesting about these is that, normally, when you hear something ungrammatical, you get an instant feeling of non-correctness. For example if I were to say "The people is walking down the street" - it instantly stands out to you as wrong. That same feeling doesn't seem to happen with Escher sentences.
While not the same idea, it reminds me of garden path sentences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence