Towards a New Approach to Some and Any Based on Large-Scale Corpus Analysis. Report on My Research into Non-Assertive Contexts with a Special Emphasis on Conditional Sentences

This paper reports on the current state of my corpus research into some and any. The first section of the article examines the standard treatment of some and any in grammar books and considers some alternative approaches. The second part focuses on research methods, while the third discusses the results of the study, which bring into question much of the standard description of some and any in non-assertive environments. I conclude the article by outlining some pedagogical implications of my findings.