'Nother blend (or, telling on myself)

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Sorry; I thought you were talking about the morpho-syntax; I agree
>that they are (roughly) semantically-pragmatically the same.

dInIs


>I see these as essentially identical in meaning:
>I've got more than two days' [worth] of clean clothes
>or
>I've got more than two days of [being able to wear] clean clothes
>Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
>Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
>
>I've got more than two days' of clean clothes
>
>but very different from
>
>I've got more than two days of clean clothes
>
>which is like
>
>I've got more than one day of clean clothes.


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Dennis R. Preston
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