Re: double negatives

John Cowan wrote:

>Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>
>> Also, I've just thought that with a slightly different intonation,
English
>> might allow something like _I've told nothing, to nobody, under no
>> circumstances_ - am I wrong?
>
>This is certainly impossible in the standard dialect, but of course there
>are many non-standard dialects where negative concord is used. There
>are situations where standard negative-attraction breaks down:
>"I haven't said anything" is the idiomatic form, but "I've said nothing" is
not
>incorrect, for example.  (Note the subtlety "not incorrect", which is
>not the same as "correct".)>
I don't have a problem with these.  I have no problem with these.
I don't have any money.  I have no money.  Sama-sama; both quite correct.
The ones with _no_ may be a little formal, some might say stilted; maybe
more British-- "I've no money" definitely so?  Vasiliy's sentence sounds
like something one might say in testimony, an emphatic denial e.g of ever
discussing any nuclear secrets, with anyone, at any time.