easy/eager

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 7, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Jim Parish wrote:

> On 7 Mar 2004 at 11:21, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>> elizabeth zwicky noted the following from Robert Pastor on the 2/28/04
>> Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR:
>>
>>    It's not a government with which the international community will
>> be
>> easy to deal.
> <snip discussion>
>
> Could it be that "easy" is being used as an antonym for "uneasy"?

??

are you saying that the following is fine for you?

   It's a government with which the international community will be
uneasy to deal.

yes, some version of "neg raising" is involved here, but i can't see
that that's in any way relevant to the problem.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)