"some many"?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/11/2009 09:09 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I'm not sure it's all that unlikely on syntactic grounds.  "Some
>three", "Some five or six", etc. occur, so why not "some many"?
>"Some several" also occurs widely, although I'd never say it, and
>there's no likely reanalysis in that case.

"Some several" would have occurred in the 18th century, meaning "some
individual, distinguishable" items.

Joel

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