prescriptivism, conventions, irony, and could(n't) care less

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jan 31 01:30:14 UTC 2001


At 2:04 PM +0000 1/31/01, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>  the pattern of
>adj-to-adv is not so widespread as one of my more American-disparaging
>acquaintances would have it--I can't imagine anyone saying "I can't come,
>unfortunate."
>
only for manner (or VP?) adverbs but not sentence adverbs?



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