‘any’: problem with that

From Linguistics in the Netherlands (PDF):

There is no single Dutch morpheme which corresponds exactly to English any and the correct mapping from Dutch to English is a complicated many-to-many relation. Consider the representative examples in (24) through (36), which have been obtained from Dutch newspapers and books and native speaker informants (NSI).

 

Posted by Nathan Bierma on 06/30 at 03:30 PM
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