CORPUS LINGUISTICS

A corpus study by Mindt (1998) concluded that 50% of any usage takes place in affirmative statements, 40% in negative statements, and only 10% in interrogatives. The purpose of this exercise is to get the students to discover three usage patterns and their relative frequency. These concordance lines can also be exploited for other purposes such as defining functions and common language chunks of any. It is assumed that an exercise like this would be part of a lesson context in which the students were studying quantifiers or something related. A Closer Look at "Any" Read through the following lines taken from a concordance of the word any. This is going to be a test like any other test, like, for example working with you.. If there are any questions about how we're going to and I didn't receive any materials for the November meeting and it probably won't make any difference. I mean, that's the next You can do it any way you want. Do you want to ask any questions? make any comments? I don't have any problem with that. I'm just saying if they make any changes, they would be minor changes. I think we ought to use any kind of calculator. I think that way I see it and it doesn't make any sense to me, but I can take that Source: Corpus of Spoken Professional American English What conclusions can you draw about the use of any? Part 2 What are the three main uses of any in order of frequency? Any 1: The first use of any that I found was to specified a certain kind of thing. Any 2: The second use is to say that there is nothing. Any3: The third use would be to use it as some.