"much" vs. "a lot of"

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:25 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> There has indeed been a lot of ink spilled over the negative polarity status of "much".

some of the ink:

AZ, 4/5/06: Much ado about a lot:
 http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002990.html

AZ, 5/17/06: Big much squib:
 http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003157.html

Grano & Zwicky on much vs. a lot:
 http://www.stanford.edu/~zwicky/SUhand.0607.pdf

2007 muchalot survey
  http://www.stanford.edu/~zwicky/muchalot.linginst.pdf

2007 muchalot notes
  http://www.stanford.edu/~zwicky/muchalot-notes.pdf

arnold

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