different + P

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> we've touched on "different from/than/to" on this list recently, and i'm *sure* it's
> come up several times in the past (it's now come up on Language Log too,
> thanks to a posting by Barbara Partee on "special than").  i'm also sure that
> i've written on the subject several times -- here, or on Language Log or my blog,
> or in correspondence -- but i can't find any record of this on my computer or in
> various archives.  maybe i'm making this up.  but i'd prefer to cite existing stuff
> rather than do a new presentation from scratch (complete with the research
> necessary to go beyond what MWDEU says, in particular to get stuff from the
> handbooks and the OED).
>
> does anyone else have a record of any of this?

Some discussion in these threads:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0401A&L=ADS-L&P=R1380
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0712E&L=ADS-L&P=R1137


--Ben Zimmer

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