failures of parallelism

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:26 PM -0400 7/9/04, Alice Faber wrote:
>Arnold M. Zwicky said:
>>"But anyone can't solve that problem" is a real baffler for me; i have
>>to stop and work out what someone might have been trying to convey by
>>it.
>>
>>the others are, to various degrees, better.  all except the first have
>>a "just" in them (and i understand the first as if it had a "just"),
>>which seems to improve things some, especially in the "just anybody"
>>examples.
>>
>>i haven't tried to work out what's going on here; these are just gut
>>reactions.
>
>Even reading silently, I read "but anyone can't solve that problem"
>with added emphasis on "anyone", for what it's worth.
>--
Exactly, only I would say (indeed, have said elsewhere in print) that
it's not just emphasis but the appropriate fall-rise-type contour
(sorry, I know I should learn the ToBI notation, but...).

Larry