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Re: Double negatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Nov 30 16:38:56 2009
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:06:10 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <1cb7130b0911301256j4a6dea09h5ad181804b12d62b@mail.gmail.com>
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Tracy Canfield wrote:
> I was trying to be accurate without getting too detailed, and do a lot
> of handwaving about "this context". "Any" behaves differently
> depending on the context, and I didn't want to get into whether there
> was more than one "any". As the determiner in a subject NP, "Any kind
> of pie" is clearly different from "No kind of pie", and that shouldn't
> vary by variety of English. The interchangeability really kicks in
> when the NP is the object - "There isn't any/no pie", "Chris can't
> have any/no pie," etc. chab Sop Chris 'e' chaw'be'lu'.
chab Sop Chris net chaw'be'.
(Although there are examples of proverbs with {'e' X-lu'}. But if you
take them as standard, poor old {net} will never see any use!)
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