[Ads-l] variation and uncertainty

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

a little while back, we had some discussion of cases where it was hard for people to choose *any* variant in some structure, and my name was cited.  yes, i have in fact written about one fairly spectacular case -- 

In a syntactic quandary
http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/SemFest2013.pdf

arnold

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