In not-negated English sentences with indefinite expressions following the verb, there is variation between the indefinite article and any as determiners of nouns. The standard view is that singular count nouns take the indefinite article and singular non-count and plural nouns take any. However, it is possible to encounter examples like it isn't any threat, there isn't any lock or I don't have any problem.The article studies variation between the indefinite article and any as post-verbal determiners of singular nouns in 21,084 not-negated sentences in the spoken component of The Corpus of Contemporary American English, COCA SPOK. The indefinite article is dominant with 90 per cent of the tokens. Variation is extremely rare in sentences with copular be and much more frequent in sentences with existential be and have. Among the reasons for variation between verb types is the use of do-support with have (but not with be). Expressions such as have a job/car/home or there's not a/an with uncontracted not may also prevent the use of any. Variation occurs mostly with abstract nouns such as problem, choice, way, place, reason. This finding is surprising as abstract nouns have rarely been discussed in the literature on varying countability of nouns.

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重访非否定：当代美式英语中动词补语中的 a 和 any 之间的变化

在不是-动词后面有不定式的否定英语句子，不定冠词和任何作为名词的限定词。标准观点是单数可数名词取不定冠词，单数不可数名词和复数名词取任何。但是，可能会遇到类似的示例它不是任何威胁,没有任何锁要么我没有任何问题.这篇文章研究了不定冠词和任何在 21,084 中作为单数名词的后动词限定词不是- 口语成分中的否定句当代美国英语语料库，可口可乐。不定冠词占主导地位，占 90%。变体在带有 copular 的句子中极为罕见是在存在主义的句子中更常见是和有. 动词类型之间变化的原因之一是使用做- 支持有（但不与是）。诸如此类的表达有工作/汽车/家要么没有一个/一个与未签约不是也可能会阻止使用任何。变体主要发生在抽象名词上，例如问题,选择,大大地,地方,原因. 这一发现令人惊讶，因为在关于名词的可变可数性的文献中很少讨论抽象名词。