Date:  Wed, 8 Nov 1995 11:57:56 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: supervisor/coupon



Of course in a lot of contexts, 'some friends' is not equivalent to 'some

friends of mine'--

   Mary told Bill that some friends would be joining them for dinner.

Not even to mention Quakers. But I agree that even when 'some friends' does

seem to suggest '...of mine', the overt expression is not identical, if only

because it more concretely grounds or anchors the nominal--I agree that it

involves Prince's assumed familiarity, as Joan Cook pointed out. And of

course there's Bolinger's principle that no two expressions (that survive) are

ever entirely synonymous, so we should be prepared to assume non-equivalence

rather than complete redundancy.

 --larry