"much" vs. "a lot of"

[Neal Whitman]

And FWIW:
http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/too-much/

Neal

> On Feb 5, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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>> On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:25 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> There has indeed been a lot of ink spilled over the negative polarity status of "much".
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> some of the ink:
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> AZ, 4/5/06: Much ado about a lot:
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002990.html
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> AZ, 5/17/06: Big much squib:
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003157.html
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> Grano & Zwicky on much vs. a lot:
> http://www.stanford.edu/~zwicky/SUhand.0607.pdf
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> 2007 muchalot survey
>  http://www.stanford.edu/~zwicky/muchalot.linginst.pdf
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> 2007 muchalot notes
>  http://www.stanford.edu/~zwicky/muchalot-notes.pdf
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> arnold
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