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Coined by linguist Jean Ehrenkranz LeGrand in 1975 in her PhD thesis Or and Any: The Semantics and Syntax of Two Logical Operators.
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subtrigging
Today it means: The phenomenon whereby free-choice items, which are normally ungrammatical in non-negative episodic sentences, become licensed in the presence of a modifier. Full definition →