[Lexicog] unlex-entries

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The number of usages that Mark Liberman has come up with seems impressive.

But then I wonder, if you had an ungrammatical error that happened once
every 1000 uses of a word or construction, after several years you could
find a number of examples of the "incorrect" usage. Does this then make it
correct?

But to me there is a logic to this usage. What is meant here is "not
unpacked", or "ununpacked". The double negation (which here makes sense)
gets collapsed to a single negation, either because of the rules against
double negation in English, or as a contraction "ununpacked" > "unpacked".


Steve White, Jaars language software support
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