[Ads-l] quote: fire in a wooden box

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On May 24, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty sure it is in the Joos reader. And my memory is that it was not linguistics in general, but rather semantics in particular. He had a number of italicized comments about articles and I think it's one of those.

PLEASE send a copy of your replies to David Gold.  i am not a forwarding service.

(my copy of the Joos reader is also unavailable, alas.)

arnold

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