Timeline for Central determiners "some" and "any" used with singular count nouns
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 18:03 | comment | added | John Lawler | The free choice sense is Positive-Polarity in the same way the normal sense is Negative-Polarity. Try using free-choice any without a possible modal like can, may, able, possible, X-able and you'll get ungrammaticality. Any is commensal with Operators. | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 10:48 | vote | accept | user1384991 | ||
| Jun 3, 2012 at 9:25 | comment | added | Shoe | @user1384991, My answer is based on the discussion of any on pages 380-385 in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), which, in my opinion, has supplanted Quirk as the most authoritative descriptive grammar. There is a shorter discussion on pages 48-50 of Swan's Practical English Usage Second Edition, which I consider to be the best prescriptive grammmar for beginning and intermediate learners of English. | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 9:14 | comment | added | user1384991 | Can you provide any reference (web-articles, books) for the further examination ? | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 9:02 | history | edited | Shoe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2012 at 8:54 | history | answered | Shoe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |