ABSTRACT
As we saw in Part I, the distribution of many-if not all-lexical items is restricted one way or another. There is a class of words and expressions, such as English any, that are ‘limited to contexts involving negation and some other things’ (McCawley 1988:562). This is illustrated below:
(1) a. John didn’t talk to anybody, b. *John talked to anybody, c. Nobody said anything, d. *Everybody said anything.
