negation + "including" (dangling modifier for free)

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu May 5 20:31:12 UTC 2005


On May 5, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Larry Horn wrote:

> If anyone is really interested in this from a theoretical/empirical
> direction, there have been a number of publications by Linda Moxey
> and Tony Sanford, including their book _Communicating Quantities_
> (1993), on what they call "Comp-set" as opposed to "Ref-set"
> reference, i.e. cases in which the reference is to the complement of
> the set specified ("Few of the students passed, because they [= the
> ones who didn't] hadn't taken the test seriously" vs. "Many of the
> students passed, because they [=/= the ones who didn't]...).

i was hoping larry would have some, er, references to hand.

thanks,
   arnold



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