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The truth about some and any, and some thoughts it prompted on meanings, grammatical categories, and academic grammars
Linguists keep getting it wrong
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2011
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We are into the second decade of the twenty-first century, but grammarians still fail to distinguish properly between some and any (and their compounds – something/anything, etc.). This may in itself seem a small matter. But it is symptomatic of flaws in the academic study of language.
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