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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

Amorey Gethin
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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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English Today , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 28 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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